1774 Colonial AMERICAN Maryland LEGAL Commissary GUIDE Laws REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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1774 Colonial AMERICAN Maryland LEGAL Commissary GUIDE Laws REVOLUTIONARY WAR:
$1875.00
[1st American Legal Guide; Maryland Imprint; Important Engraved title page; Colonial American Imprint]:The Deputy Commissary\'s Guide Within the Province of Maryland, Together with Plain and Sufficient Directions for Testators to Form, and Executors to Form Their Wills and Testaments, For Administrators to Compleat Their Administrations, And for Every Person Any Way Concerned in Deceased Person\'s Estates, To Proceed Therein with Safety to Themselves and Others. Vallette, Elie; Sparrow, Thomas [Engraver]. Annapolis: Printed by Ann Catherine Green and Son, 1774.The first original American legal guide, it is also the first American book on the law of wills. Dedicated to Maryland Governor Robert Eden, it was printed by Ann Catherine Green, wife of Jonas Green, whom she succeeded as public printer of Maryland from 1767 to 1775. The engraved title page, the only one issued from a colonial Maryland press, and the plate were the work of Thomas Sparrow, the only engraver south of the Mason-Dixon Line prior to 1775. Vallette was registrar of the Prerogative Office of Maryland Province. This noteworthy book, printed by Ann Green, \"has the distinction of being the only Colonial Maryland imprint with a copper engraved title page, which coincidentally was considered the best-known example of Thomas Sparrow\'s work\" [Hudak. Early American Women Printers and Publishers 268]. Green, who again inherited the business from her husband in her middle age, \"when many women might have indulged in self-pity, summoned all her inner resources and undertook both the support of her children and the accomplishment of a vital public service\" [Id. 267]. Wroth says the engraved title page \"was Sparrow\'s best work.\"Includes important Copperplate title page as well as the table of descents. Boards quite worn with most of the leather missing, warped a but from water exposure, the spine with similar leather loss, cords exposed but intact, albeit tenuously. Moderate toning to text, somewhat darker in places, some foxing & dampstaining to first three leaves. Complete; [ii], iv, 248, [12] pp. Measures 7.75\" x 5\". A great opportunity to own an early American imprint, ehich would shine in a new casing. Good luck!
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1774 Colonial AMERICAN Maryland LEGAL Commissary GUIDE Laws REVOLUTIONARY WAR:
$1875.00