Books by GREAT BRITAIN

London: Charles Eyre & William Strahan, 1773. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages clean save for some very minor browning in outer margins.. Folio (31 cm, 12.2"). [1] f., 299–306 pp. This act specifies that foreigners and aliens willing to loan money to owners of estates in the West Indies will have legal recourse should those owners default on their mortgages. A good example of the solid, workaday English law-printing of its period, opening with an attractive foliate initial crowned with a ... more information

London: Pr. by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1771. Removed from a volume and resewn. A clean copy.. Folio. [1] f., pp. 1227-1234. The act establishes a rewards system for those who import sap-free, unwormed, knothole-less white oak barrel staves from the British colonies in America into specified English ports. The bounty will be paid only for a short, specified period; the chief aim is to aid English brewers. ... more information

London: Pr. by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1771. Removed from a volume and old sewing holes visible in inner margins. Last leaf detached and reattached with archival-quality tissue tape. A clean copy.. Folio. [1] f., pp. 999-1002. The act allows for direct, duty-free importation into England, on English ships, of American mahogany and other woods, especially in the form of lumber but also as other wood products. The chief aim is to stimulate furniture manufacturers and other "artificers. ... more information

1767. [BRITISH THEATER]. Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Septimo [-Vicesimo Septimo] ... 12 pamphlets, various paginations. Folio, ca. 305 x 195 mm., printed in Roman and English black-letter. Disbound, housed in a full-cloth box with leather label on spine. London: Printed by Mark Baskett, [later Charles Eyre and William Strahan], 1767 [-1787]. A collection of twelve scarce Parliamentary acts from the reign of George III, all of co... more information