Book #79106
Item #79106 English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance. Henry Care, William Nelson, Nathaniel Bishop.
English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance...
English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance...
English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance...
English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance...
English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance...
English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance...

English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance...

A Copy Owned by a Subscriber Who Was an Early Massachusetts Judge and Politician [Care, Henry (1646-1688)]. N[elson], W[illiam] [b.1653], Editor. English Liberties, Or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance. Containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, The Statute De Tallagio Non Concedendo, The Habeas Corpus Act, And Several Other Statutes; With Comments on Each of Them. [...] With a Short but Impartial Relation of the Difference Between King Charles I. And the Long Parliament, Concerning the Prerogative of the King, The Liberties of the Subject, And the Rise of the Civil Wars. Of Trials by Juries, And of the Qualifications of Jurors; Their Punishment for Misbehaviour, And of Challenges to Them. Lastly, Of Justices of the Peace, And Coroners: With Many Law Cases Throughout the Whole. Corrected and Improved. Providence: Printed and Sold by John Carter, 1774. viii, 350, [6] pp. Includes six-page subscriber list. Octavo (7" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary sheep, raised bands to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few shallow scuffs and scratches to boards, early ink annotation (faint and illegible) to front board, moderate rubbing to extremities, front joint starting, rear joint cracked, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped and worn, hinges cracked (rear hinge before final text leaf), faint offsetting to preliminaries, small tear and brief annotation ("August 24th: 1796") to front pastedown, owner signature (of Nathaniel Bishop [1757-1826], dated at Richmont, December 9, 1781) to front free endpaper, which is lightly edgeworn and lacking its lower outside corner. Moderate toning and light foxing to interior, printer's flaw to p. 93 with loss to text, light soiling and tiny spark burns to a few leaves. Item housed in custom clamshell box, quarter morocco over cloth, gilt title and gilt-edged raised bands to spine. An appealing copy in a contemporary binding. $7,500. **THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION.** * Second American edition. Preceded by a 1721 Boston edition from Benjamin Franklin's elder half-brother, James Franklin, this Providence edition was published in the same year as the first Continental Congress and the Intolerable Acts (and about a year after the Boston Tea Party). A publisher's note says this edition was "princip.

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Book number 79106