An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries...
The "Palladium of Conscience": Robert Bell's Landmark Colonial Collection on Religious Liberty and Free Speech Priestley, Joseph [1733-1804]. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Furneaux, Philip [1726-1783]. Foster, Sir Michael [1689-1763]. Murray, William, Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793)]. 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 of 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. [Philadelphia]: Printed for the Subscribers, By Robert Bell, 1772 [-1773]. [iv], iv, [5]-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] pp. Each section preceded by divisional title page, first section also preceded by general title page, title page of Letters to the Honourable Mr. Justice Blackstone dated 1773. Includes one-page publisher advertisement for Bell's 1773 printing of Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society and a subscription for a second American edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Period-style quarter calf over cloth, raised bands, lettering piece and blind ornaments to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, small recent owner bookplate to front free endpaper. Moderate toning, occasional light foxing, faint dampstaining to margins in places. Early owner verse inscription of William Raisbeck dated 1785 to front endleaf, early owner signatures, of Robert P. Lee (possibly Robert Perine Lee [1766-c.1845]) and Jonathan Livingston, to title page, another Livingston signature to following leaf, annotations, presumably by Livingston, to a few leaves, annotations signe.
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