with a Table of the Principal Matters. Published under Inspection of the Judges of the High Court of Chancery, by a resolution
of General Assembly, the 16th day of June 1783.
Richmond: Printed by
Thomas Nicolson and
William Prentis,
m, dcc, lxxxv
. [1785]
Law 16
Folio. 118 leaves: [ ]
2, B-R
2, R
2 (repeated), S-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaaa-Hhh
2,
[
sic
--
Ed.
] Hhh
4 in 24 letter alphabets.
Sabin 100392.
Evans 19351.
Swem 7461.
Hening, vol. II, 547.
Lettered on the back:
Laws of Virginia /
Vol VII /
Revisal of 1783 /
Monticello Library /.
Usually known as the Chancellor’s Revisal. The chancellors were Edmund Pendleton, George Wythe and John Blair.
[1861]
8. the Revisal of 1794.
A Collection of all such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a Public and Permanent Nature, as are now in Force,
with a Table of the Principal Matters. To which are prefixed the Declaration of Rights, and Constitution, or Form of Government.
Published pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly, intituled, “An Act providing for the Republication of the Laws of this
Commonwealth,” passed on the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
Richmond: Printed by
Augustine Davis, Printer for the Commonwealth,
1794.
Law 17
Folio. 192 leaves: [ ]
2, B-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Zzz, Aaaa-Zzzz
2 in 24 letter alphabets.
Sabin 100403.
Evans 27999.
Swem 7804.
Lettered on the back:
Laws of Virginia /
Vol VIII /
Revisal of 1794 /
Monticello Library /.
With the signature of David Lambert on the title-page and at the end.
[1862]
72
Hening’s Statutes at large.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 76. no. 28, Hening’s Statutes, at large, 8vo, vols, 1, 2, 3.
HENING,
William Waller.
The Statutes at Large; being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the year
1619. Published pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed on the Fifth Day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and eight. Volume I [-III]. By William Waller Hening . . .
Richmond: Printed by and for
Samuel Pleasants, Junior, Printer to the Commonwealth,
1809,
1810,
1812.
Law
First Edition. 3 vol. [only] 8vo. 311, 303, 295 leaves; list of errata at the end of each volume.
This edition not in Sabin.
Swem 8352, 8409, 8553.
This edition not in Charlemagne Tower.
Jefferson’s copy is not extant. The first volume was a presentation from Hening in 1809; vol. II and III were bought in 1813
from
Pleasants, to whom Jefferson wrote from Monticello on May 21 of that year, ordering “
Hening’s statutes at large as far as they are published, except the 1
st. vol. which I have
.” Pleasants sent the third volume only, and Jefferson wrote on August 11: “
. . . when I wrote for what had come out of Hening’s statutes, I mentioned that I had only his 1
st. vol. you sent me the 3
d. alone. I must now ask for the 2
d. the stage office requires to have it’s memory jogged at times, or it forgets to forward these things . . .
”
Pleasants replied on August 17: “. . . I regret that my young man (in my ab- ”
