An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries...
Appendix Volume to Bell's American Blackstone Containing a Group of Essays on Religious Liberty and Freedom of 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 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. [Philadelphia]: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, at the Late Union-Library, In Third-Street, Philadelphia, 1773. [iv], iv, [5]-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] pp. Includes one-page publisher advertisement for Bell's 1773 printing of Fergusons's Essay on the History of Civil Society and a subscription for a second American edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. Each section preceded by divisional title page, first section also preceded by general title page. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Recent quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to extremities, lower corners bumped and lightly worn, front hinge starting, crack in text block between title page and following leaf. Moderate toning, somewhat heavier in places, occasional faint dampstaining to head of text block, much of it confined to margins. $950. * The first printing of this influential commentary as an independent work. It was published a year after the first edition, which was an appendix volume to Bell's edition of Blackstone's Commentaries (1771-1772). It was reissued in 1774 as The Palladium of.
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