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Contemporary calf, gilt. Spine somewhat worn, lettering-labels largely absent, covers rubbed and scuffed, both joints a little tender; manuscript title-page and contents pages. 19 tracts specified (though no. 17 is a multiple), some a little foxed, bound in one volume; with the armorial bookplate of George Ormerod, Sedbury Park, later armorial Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate, and pencilled ownership inscription of F.R. Cowell. Contents as follows (further details on request): 1) A CATALOGUE OF RECORD WORKS . . . on sale by Henry Butterworth. (1847). 2) DISCOURSES on a late publication entitled The Statutes of the Realm. (1812). Armorial bookplate of Rogers Ruding; mounted on the half-title verso his manuscript note, "This Discourse was so offensive to his Majesty's Commissioners on Publick Records, that they caused diligent search to be made in it for matter of Libel, but, fortunately for the Author, without effect". 3) SPECIMENS OF THE BOOKS containing the sales of wards and marriages. [Edited by] Francis Palgrave. (1834). 4) Sir Edward SUGDEN, Cursory Observations on a General Register. (1834). Ownership inscription of George Ormerod. 5) PUBLIC RECORDS: the public advantages of entrusting the records of the Exchequer belonging to the offices of the Lord Treasurer s Remembrancer, and Clerk of the Pipe, to the irresponsible custody of the King s Remembrancer. (1834). Ownership inscription of Thomas Ellis Adlington. 6) RECORD COMMISSION: letters from eminent historical writers relating to the publications of the Board of Commissioners on the Public Records. (1836). 7) Henry COLE, Record Commission: letters on the conduct of Charles Purton Cooper, Esq., the Secretary, and on the general management of the commission. (1836). 8) Henry COLE, Record Commission: a second letter. (1836). 9) RECORD COMMISSION: report of the debate, in the House of Commons on the motion of Charles Buller. [1836]. Ownership inscription of T.E. Adlington. 10) RECORD COMMISSION: observations, letters and opinions of the Commissioners, on the constitution and duties of the Record Commission. (1836). 11) REMARKS on certain evils to which the printed evidence taken by committees of the House of Commons is at present subject. (1837). Inscribed, "T.E. Adlington, Esq. from the author". 12) Charles GAY, Letter of Mr. Charles Gay (of the Augmentation Office) to the Commissioners on Public Records. (1837). Ownership inscription of T.E. Adlington. 13) A COMPARATIVE ACCOUNT of works produced and moneys received by the Commissioners on the Public Records. (1837). 14) Sir William BETHAM, Observations on the Evidence taken before the Committee of the House of Commons, on the Record Commission in 1836, and the report, so far as it refers to the Irish records. (1837). 15) Joseph HUNTER, Select Committee on the Record Commission: a letter to Patrick Fraser Tytler. (1837). 16) NARRATIVE of the proceedings instituted in the Court of Common Pleas, against Mr. Thomas Rodd. (1845). 17) SURTEES SOCIETY. [Report of a meeting held on 27 May 1834 to establish the Surtees Society]. (1834). Single sheet, folded. [WITH] Copy of a Printed Letter, explaining the objects of the society. (1834). Single sheet, folded. [WITH] Rules, &c., of the Surtees Society. [c1836]. [WITH] The Surtees Society [including new rules agreed upon in 1849]. [1849]. 18) PLAN Of THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (1836). 19) George ORMEROD, A Memoir on the Cheshire Domesday Roll. (1851). All but one of these tracts (the rogue item from 1812) date from the sixth and last of the Record Commissions that led to the passing of the Public Record Office Act, 1838. The first Commission had started work in 1800; the sixth, which aroused most controversy (as evinced in these pages), in 1831.
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