English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance...
1774 Providence Edition 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. Providence: Printed and Sold by John Carter, 1774. viii, 350, [6] pp. Includes six-page subscriber list. Octavo (7" x 4-3/4"; 17.8 x 12.1 cm). 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 Richmond [Massachusetts], 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 with gilt title and gilt-edged raised bands to spine. A good, unsophisticated copy. $7,500. **THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION.** * Second American edition. Preceded by the 1721 Boston edition, 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 "principally designed for America" and contained "extracts from several late celebrated writers on the constitution" (vi). Clearly, the publisher was capitalizing on popular resentment toward the Crown and Parliament. First published in England circa 1680, English Liberties reviews, from a Whig perspective, the principles of English law and government. Containing the texts of Magna Carta and other foundational documents of the English Constitution, it emphasizes the role of juries in the preservation of civil rights and prevention of tyranny. English Liberties was one of the first legal titles published in the American colonies and ha.
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