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FIRST COLLECTED LAWS OF MARYLAND WITH EXCELLENT AMERICAN PROVENANCE.
A Compleat Collection of the Laws of Maryland. Annapolis: William Parks, 1727.

25 October 2022, 10:00 EDT
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FIRST COLLECTED LAWS OF MARYLAND WITH EXCELLENT AMERICAN PROVENANCE.

A Compleat Collection of the Laws of Maryland. Annapolis: William Parks, 1727.
Folio (290 x 180 mm). Disbound, binding split, but complete, repair to verso title, some chipping to edges of leaves, a few headlines shaved, last page of index strengthened at fore-edge with a few lines shaved at fore-edge with burn mark to upper inner margin, lacking hhhh2 (blank), early manuscript annotations (presumably from John Webb throughout).
Provenance: John Webb (early legal scholar, d.1750); sold to Solomon Wright (1717-1792, delegate to the Maryland Constitutional Convention, signer of the 1775 Declaration of Freemen of Maryland).

THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT ANNAPOLIS, with a wonderful Maryland provenance from Solomon Wright, who was a signer of the 1775 Declaration of Freemen of Maryland, an important precursor to the Declaration of Independence. Printer William Parks began printing the Maryland Gazette the same year, the first periodical published in Maryland. A Compleat Collection of the Laws of Maryland also contains significant African-American content relating to laws governing slavery in the 17th-18th centuries. An early American rarity. Evans 2897; McMurtrie History of Printing in the United States, pp 111-112; Wroth Printing in Maryland 38.

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