ANNO REGNI GEORGII III AN ACT
by Americana]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Yaxley, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776. 'PROHIBITORY ACT' 215-244pp; Cap.V 1776. AN IMPORTANT ACT IN THE STORY OF AMERICA AND THE REVOLUTION. A fine example with clean fresh paper, wide margins and a strong dark type impression. "It throws thirteen colonies out of the royal protection, levels all distinctions, and makes us independent in spite of our supplications and entreaties... It may be fortunate that the act of independency should come from the British Parliament rather than the American Congress" [John Adams] 'Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, and Hiberniae, Vicesimo. Decimo Secto. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, ........Anno Dom. 1775 in the fifteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith & c. being the first session of this present parliament'. Attractive general title-page with the Royal Crest. Decorative initial to the black letter with a drop title to the head of the page. A fine crisp, fresh and clean complete copy. . .from an incomplete nonce volume. The final acts to crush the American Revolution by acts of Parliament sanctions.. Original Issue First Printing. paper wrappers. Fine. Folio. dis-bound copy.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M1486
- Title
- ANNO REGNI GEORGII III AN ACT
- Author
- Americana]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Original Issue First Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Eyre and William Strahan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1776
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- Prohibitory Act
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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