A Valuable Assistant to Every Man, Or, The American Clerk's Magazine..
Rare 1797 Third Edition of Freeman's American Clerk's Magazine Featuring an Early American Mayflower Lineage Inscription Freeman, Samuel [1743-1831]. A Valuable Assistant to Every Man: Or, The American Clerk's Magazine. Containing the Most Useful and Necessary Forms of Writings, Which Commonly Occur Between Man and Man, Under the Names of Acquittances, Agreements, Assignments, Awards, Bargains, Bills, Bonds, Complaints, Conveyances, Covenants, Deeds, Feoffments, Fine and Recovery, Gifts, And Grants, Indentures, Leases, Lease and Release, Letters of Attorney, Mortgages, Notes, Pleas, Petitions, Receipts, Releases, Sales, Surrenders, Wills, Writs and Declarations, &c. And Other Instruments. The Whole of Which are Calculated for the Use of the Citizens of the United States. And are Conformable to Law. Revised, Enlarged, And Much Improved. Published According to Act of Congress. Boston: Printed by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1797. Third edition. 12mo (6-3/4" x 3-3/4"; 17.1 x 9.5cm). iv, [2], [7]-297, [1] pp. Includes a one-page list of legal manuals published by Thomas and Andrews. Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt fillets and heavily worn lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Heavily worn and rubbed, a few scuffs and nicks to boards and spine ends, which are slightly bowed, corners bumped. Some dampstaining to pastedowns and endleaves. Contemporary previous owner's gift inscription "Atremus Hosea Benson/ and Bradford Cushmans/ Property given them/ by their Father 1803/ Bt of Asa Smith" to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior, occasional light foxing and faint soiling, otherwise internally clean and sound. $250. * This definitive edition of Samuel Freeman's legal guide represents a seminal chapter in the democratization and nationalization of law in the early American republic. For nearly two centuries, colonial Americans relied on heavily adapted British formbooks to execute local civil transactions. Freeman, a distinguished Massachusetts probate judge, clerk of courts, and register of probate, created one of the very first native compilations of legal instruments tailored to the needs and statutes of citizens under the United States government. Thomas [1749-1831] was an important early Massachusetts printer, newspaper publisher, author, and founder of the American Antiquarian Society.
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