240
Scobel’s acts of the Commonwealth parl. from 1648. to 1651.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 104. no. 430, as above.
SCOBELL,
Henry.
A Collection of several acts of Parliament, published in the years 1648, 1649, 1650 and 1651, very useful, especially for
Justices of the Peace and other officers in the execution of their duties . . .
London:
John Field,
1653.
Folio. No copy was seen for collation.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 354, 34.
STC E890.
There is no copy of this book in the Library of Congress. It is entered by Jefferson and in the 1815 catalogue in chapter
24. In the later Library of Congress catalogues it is transferred to chapter 18, Criminal Law and Trials, and not ascribed
to the Jefferson collection.
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J. 241
Debates in the H. of Lords. Chandler.
7. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 95. no. 220, Chandler’s Debates of the H. of Lords, 1660-1741, 7 v 8vo.
The History and Proceedings of the House of Lords, from the Restoration in 1660, to the present time . . . Volume the first . . . [-seventh . . .]
London: printed for
Ebenezer Timberland,
1742.--
The History and proceedings of the House of Lords, during the third Parliament of King George II. held in the Years 1741 and
1742. Being the eighth volume from the Restoration . . . Together with the debates in the Parliament of Scotland, relating to the Union.
ib.,
m,dcc,xliii
. [1743.]
J301 .H2
Together 8 vol. 8vo., the period covered in each volume stated on the title-page after the volume number.
Old calf. Not initialled by Jefferson. The autograph signature of
Ebenezer Timberland on the back of the title of Vol. VIII. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate (numbered 221, the number of the Debates of the Commons, see the
next entry).
This work, published by Ebenezer Timberland, is a companion work to the
Debates of the House of Commons
by Richard Chandler, to whom this work is frequently though erroneously ascribed, and is so ascribed by Jefferson. Jefferson’s
copy of Chandler’s
Debates in the House of Commons (no. 2928) came from the library of Reuben Skelton, it was probably therefore to the
Debates in the House of Lords that Jefferson referred in his letter to Payne written from Paris on January 28, 1789: “
I received last night from m(
~
r)
Trumbull the account of the books you had sent me. the books themselves had arrived some time before. among those not yet
purchased you note Chandler’s debates at £9.9. I am glad you have not purchased it at that price, and will beg the favor of
you to strike it out of my list altogether . . .
”
Another copy from Jefferson’s library, and sold to Congress in 1815, has been discovered among the books discarded as duplicates in 1909. This set is part of that from Reuben Skelton’s library; see no. 2928. The volumes are similarly bound in mottled calf, have the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate correctly numbered 220, and Reuben Skelton’s bookplace in all the seven volumes. The books are initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in each volume. In addition there are labels on teh backs marked J. and a J (for Jefferson) pencilled on the 1815 bookplates.
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J. 242
Debates in the H. of Commons. Chandler.
14. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 95. no. 221, Chandler’s Debates of the H. of Commons 1660-1743, 14 v 8vo.
The History and proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the present time . . . Vol. I. [-fourteenth . . .]
London: printed for
Richard Chandler,
1742-3-4.
J301 .H22
