An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries.

Publication date: 1773

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America: Robert Bell, 1773. First edition. Religious Liberty and Constitutional Dissent in Revolutionary-Era America, with a Bookplate Engraved by Nathaniel Hurd Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804); Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780); Furneaux, Philip (1726-1783); et al. An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on Some Paragraphs in the Fourth Volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, Relating to the Dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The Case of the Late Election of the County or Middlesex Considered on the Principles of the Constitution and the Authorities of Law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone Concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, And Some Positions Relative to Religious Liberty, in his Celebrated Commentaries on the Laws of England. VI. Authentic Copies of the Argument of the Late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, And of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the Cause Between the City of London and the Dissenters. America: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, at the Late Union-Library, In Third-Street, Philadelphia, 1773. Second American edition. Octavo (9-1/2" x 6"). [iv], iv, 119, xii, 155 pp. Complete with general title page and five divisional title pages, all dated 1773. Final unnumbered page contains Bell's advertisement for Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society and a prospectus for a quarto second edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. Page 123 misnumbered 113, as issued. Contemporary American sheep, heavily rubbed and scuffed, joints and extremities worn, old rebacking in brown cloth, manuscript spine title "Remarks," with "Priestley" below and early library shelf numbers at foot. Moderate toning, occasional light foxing and faint marginal dampstaining. Text block sound. Armorial bookplate of John C. Williams, engraved and signed by Nathaniel Hurd, to front pastedown, with later pencil identification of the engraver. $1,250. An important collection of essays on religious liberty, freedom of conscience and constitutional rights, printed by Robert Bell in Philadelphia in 1773. Its imprint identifies the place of publication simply as "America," an unusual and evocative designation.…

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An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries.
Author
Priestley, Joseph; Sir William Blackstone
Publication year
1773
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America: Robert Bell, 1773. First edition.
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