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Eighteenth-Century Acts Relating to Windows, Lights and Houses [Windows and Lights]. [Great Britain]. Anno Regni Georgii II. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster. The First Day of December, Anno Domini 1741, In the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Second (.) An Act for Repealing the Several Rates and Duties Upon Houses, Windows and Lights [And] [Five Acts, Variously Dated, With Continuous Pagination]. London: Eyre and Strahan, 1781. 300, [4] pp. Octavo (7" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in period style, blind fillets and contemporary lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Some rubbing to board edges, corners bumped and somewhat worn. Light toning to text, internally clean. $250. * An official collection of eight acts, without a general title page but complete as issued, all relating to the taxation of houses, windows, and lights. Each act begins with a separate title leaf indicating the session of Parliament and date; all eight leaves bear have the identical 1781 imprint as above. Pagination and signatures are continuous, with a 4-page table of contents at the end. There are several recorded variants of this compilation. Ours consists of the following: 20 Geo.II.c.3 (1746); 20 Geo.II.c.42 (1746); 21 Geo.II.c.10 (1747); 31 Geo.II.c.22 (1757); 2 Geo.III.c.8 (1762); 6 Geo.III.c38 (1765); 18 Geo.III.c.26 (1777); and 19 Geo.III.c.59 (1778). The copy in ESTC (also without a general title) has the same pagination as ours, but is dated 1778 and lists only seven acts, the last of which differs from ours (17 Geo.III.c.39 instead of 18 Geo. III.c.26). There is a copy at Harvard Law School dated 1778 that contains only 259 pp.