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Two volumes: [4], 511, [1 blank]; [4], 521, [1 blank], [14- Subscribers] pp [as issued]. Later library cloth, with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels [some chipping], old institutional rubberstamps on title leaf, scattered spotting, Good+. [offered with] LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, COMPRISING THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE, SINCE THE REVOLUTION, FROM THE FIRST TO THE TWENTIETH SESSION, INCLUSIVE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOLUME III. New York: Greenleaf. 1797. [4], 98, [1], 99-100, [1], 8, 107-160, [1], 160-258, [5], 260- 354, [3], 356-500, [1], 504-525, [1] pp [as issued]. Matching library cloth, with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels [some chipping], old institutional rubberstamps on title leaf, scattered spotting, Good+. These are the first editions of Greenleaf's printing of the Laws. The third volume, which issued in 1797, prints only the laws of the sixteenth through the twentieth sessions. The long list of Subscribers printed in the second volume includes the great men of the times: Aaron Burr, George and De Witt Clinton, several Livingstons, Elias Hicks, and a host of other attorneys. Greenleaf reprinted all three volumes together in 1798. Greenleaf's Preface explains that he had been "engaged to publish a cheap Edition of the Revised Laws". A 1789 folio edition, published by Hugh Gaine, had been too expensive for most people. Volume I, which "contains all the Laws to the eleventh Session, [has] one Session more than is comprised in the first Volume of Gaine's Edition." He emphasizes that "The Types and Paper were manufactured in this State.The Types are not so perfectly Regular as those from the London Foundaries, which have been improving for Centuries-- but, no Cash went to London for them-- and our infant Manufactures ought to be encouraged, that they also may improve." Evans 24602, 32555. NAIP w033259, w016519.
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