Stitched self wrappers
1836 · [Providence]
by Rhode Island. General Assembly. [Bowen, Henry]
[Providence]: [Printed by William Simons, Jr.], 1836. Stitched self wrappers. A very good, uncut [unopened] and untrimmed copy, signed on front and rear wrappers, edges worn, light dampstain on lower fore-margin, contents lightly soiled.. 112 pp. 8vo. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry," on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen (1785-1867?), son of Jabez Bowen Jr, was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons, Jr., was appointed state printer during the May, 1836 session of the General Assembly. Noted on the front cover: "Town Clerk Glocester." Rare. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC locates only one copy of this document, at the American Antiquarian Society, but without any notation of a signature (OCLC: 83805212).
(Inventory #: 43732)