by NEW JERSEY. LAWS
NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Time of the Surrender of the Government of the said Province, to the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Second.... Philadelphia: William and Andrew Bradford, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for the Province of New-Jersey, 1732. Fol. [14], 281 p. Mid-to-late nineteenth-century full vellum, gilt, leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, bound by Pawson & Nicholson of Philadelphia for a private Philadelphia law library, with their name in gold on the front cover and a stamp on the title page. Vellum very slightly cupped, text with scattered foxing and occasional light browning, as usual in American books of this period, but a remarkably handsome, almost crisp copy. With the eighteenth-century semi-calligraphic signatures of William Read.
The first official compilation of the laws of New Jersey, prepared by John Kinsey at the direction of the general assembly and universally referred to as "Kinsey's Laws." John Kinsey (1693-1750) was a Quaker and speaker of the general assembly. A lovely copy of a very scarce book--this is only the third copy we have offered for sale in fifty years of specializing in New Jerseyana. For a detailed account, see J. J. Felcone, The Printed Assembly Minutes and Laws of New Jersey, 1703-1732: A Bibliographical Study (Princeton, 2016), L-1732.1. Evans 3578; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 153; ESTC W4566. (Inventory #: 15643)
The first official compilation of the laws of New Jersey, prepared by John Kinsey at the direction of the general assembly and universally referred to as "Kinsey's Laws." John Kinsey (1693-1750) was a Quaker and speaker of the general assembly. A lovely copy of a very scarce book--this is only the third copy we have offered for sale in fifty years of specializing in New Jerseyana. For a detailed account, see J. J. Felcone, The Printed Assembly Minutes and Laws of New Jersey, 1703-1732: A Bibliographical Study (Princeton, 2016), L-1732.1. Evans 3578; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 153; ESTC W4566. (Inventory #: 15643)