VIRGINIA] A collection of all the acts of Assembly, now in force, in the colony of Virginia. With the titles of such as are expird... . Williamsburg [Va.]: William Parks, 1733. Twentieth century cloth with leather spine labels. 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (34 x 21.5 cm); [2], 238, [2], 239-622 pp., collating pi1 A-4I^(4) (this copy does not have the two leaves of subscribers following the title, lacking from most copies). Title with Bar Association stamps, somewhat soiled and worn, intermittent pale dampstaining but generally a clean copy, the title and M4r with the signature of Robert Morris (Robert Hunter Morris, a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, died 1855). A handsomely printed volume, and a noteworthy example of Parks' printing as the first public printer for the colony, an endeavor that began in 1730. This is the first authoritative collection of Virginia's laws, earlier compilations (printed in London) having been somewhat incomplete. Together with a similarly bound volume of the Acts of Virginia between 1734-42, all Parks printings (and all rather rare). Dampstains. Evans 3728 for the first work; the companion volume contains Evans 3849 [1734], 4094 [1736], 4317 (1738), 4616 (1740), 4617 (1740), and Bristol B1192 (1742). C The New York City Bar Association
VIRGINIA] A collection of all the acts of Assembly, now in force, in the colony of Virginia. With the titles of such as are expird... . Williamsburg [Va.]: William Parks, 1733. Twentieth century cloth with leather spine labels. 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (34 x 21.5 cm); [2], 238, [2], 239-622 pp., collating pi1 A-4I^(4) (this copy does not have the two leaves of subscribers following the title, lacking from most copies). Title with Bar Association stamps, somewhat soiled and worn, intermittent pale dampstaining but generally a clean copy, the title and M4r with the signature of Robert Morris (Robert Hunter Morris, a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, died 1855). A handsomely printed volume, and a noteworthy example of Parks' printing as the first public printer for the colony, an endeavor that began in 1730. This is the first authoritative collection of Virginia's laws, earlier compilations (printed in London) having been somewhat incomplete. Together with a similarly bound volume of the Acts of Virginia between 1734-42, all Parks printings (and all rather rare). Dampstains. Evans 3728 for the first work; the companion volume contains Evans 3849 [1734], 4094 [1736], 4317 (1738), 4616 (1740), 4617 (1740), and Bristol B1192 (1742). C The New York City Bar Association
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