placing on the throne King William III. was the natural fruit and effect of the original constitution . . . By Roger Acherley, late of the Inner-Temple, Esq; the
second edition. To which is added, A supplement, containing reasons for uniformity in the State.
London: printed for
S. Birt,
D. Browne,
C. Hitch,
C. Davis,
S. Austen, and
A. Millar.
mdccxli
. [1741.]
JN214 1727 .A32
Folio. 371 leaves collating in twos.
Lowndes I, 6.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 10, 1.
Original calf (repaired). Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the armorial bookplate of Reuben Skelton, and the
Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the library of Reuben Skelton.
Roger Acherley, 1665?-1740, English lawyer, constitutional writer and politician, wrote this, his most elaborate work, to demonstrate the
constitutional fitness of the accession of William III and the Hanoverian succession. The first edition (without the Supplement)
appeared in 1727.
[2711]
J. 156
Sommers’s rights of king & people.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 104. no. 47, as above.
[SOMERS,
John, baron Somers.]
The Judgment of whole kingdoms and nations, concerning the rights, power, and prerogative of kings, and the rights, priviledges,
and properties of the people . . . By Lord Sommers. The
eleventh edition corrected.
Philadelphia: reprinted, and sold by
John Dunlap, in Market-Street.
m.dcc.lxxiii
. [1773.]
JC176 .V67
Sm. 8vo. 78 leaves; publisher’s advertisement on the last page.
Evans 13023.
Hildeburn 2933.
This edition not in Sweet & Maxwell.
Original calf, repaired, a label on the back lettered: Somers’ / Rights / of King / and / People. Initialled by Jefferson
at sig. I and T. With a later Library of Congress bookplate.
John Somers, Baron Somers, 1651-1716, Lord Chancellor of England, is the supposed author of this tract, originally published in 1709 with the title
Vox Populi, Vox Dei. This is the
first American, from the eleventh English edition.
[2712]
J. 157
[
i.e. “
?J. 157”?--
Ed.]
Bacon on the government of England
p. 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 156, as above.
[BACON,
Nathaniel.]
An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England. The first part. From the first times till the reign
of Edward the third.
London: printed for
Matthew Walbancke at Grays-Inn-Gate,
1647.--
The continuation of an historicall discourse, of the government of England, until the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
With a preface, being a vindication of the ancient way of parliaments in England. By Nath. Bacon of Grays-Inn, Esquire.
ib. Printed for
Matthew Walbanck, and
Henry Twyford,
1651. [
1672.]
JN117 .B2
4to. 2 parts in 1. 174 and 170 leaves: A
2, B-Z, Aa-Xx; A-Z, Aa-Tt
4, Vv
2.
The dates of the first edition are 1647 and 1651 as above. This reprint was secretly issued in 1672 with the dates of the
original edition. In the original edition the first part has an engraved frontispiece; the second part has the name of the
printer: Printed by
Tho. Roycroft for Matthew Walbancke and Henry Twyford. See also the note to the next entry.
This issue not in the STC. Sweet & Maxwell I, 83, 8.
Old sheep, repaired, with new endpapers. Not initialled by Jefferson and with no marks left of its provenance.
