From Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
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NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Time of the Surrender of the Government . to this Present Time . By Samuel Nevill. [Philadelphia]: William Bradford, 1752. Sm. fol. [4], 507 p. [with:] The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Year 1753 . where the first volume ends, to the Year 1761 . By Samuel Nevill . Volume the Second. Woodbridge: James Parker, 1761. Sm. fol. [4], x, [2], 368, [4], 369-401, [1], 56, 64 p. Contemporary sheep (v.1) and contemporary reversed sheep (v.2), both very skillfully rebacked in period style. First two leaves of v.1 neatly guarded in the blank margins, the usual foxing and browning common to early American paper, else an unusually nice set in contemporary bindings. The second compilation of the laws of New Jersey (following that of John Kinsey in 1732), assembled by Samuel Nevill with the assistance in the first volume of Philip Kearny. The second volume is the first law compilation to be printed in New Jersey, James Parker having set up the colony's first permanent printing press at Woodbridge in 1754. For a detailed study of the evolution and printing of Nevill's Laws, see Felcone, New Jersey Books (2nd edn.), 1421 and 1423, and Printing in New Jersey, 1754-1800, 59. Evans 6893, 8680, 8947; ESTC W14077, W14078. Seller Inventory # 3475
Bibliographic Details
Title: Acts of the General Assembly of the Province...
Publication Date: 1752
Edition: 1st Edition
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