Copied from the Assembly Records. To which is annexed an Alphabetical Table.
London: Printed by
T. J. for
J. P. [John Purvis] and are to be sold by
Tho. Mercer n. d. [c.
1684]
Law 10
Folio. 165 leaves (only, should be 167), including the first blank and the inserted signature (Pp), and 9 leaves at the end
(should be 11, lacks sig. E) with a new alphabet for the Table; collates in twos.
Sabin 100381.
Swem 4437 and 22379.
Clayton-Torrence 89.
Hening I, v; II, iii-iv.
STC V636.
Calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T; numerous MS. marginal notes in an earlier hand. At the end of the book is a continuation in manuscript, written on both sides of 52 leaves, numbered
continuously from the last page of printed text, 301-405. This continuation is described by Jefferson in his list to George
Wythe, January 1796: “
M.S. appendix to a copy of Pervis’s collection from the Westover library, given by the late Col
o. W. Byrd to mr Wayles, whose library came to my hands.
”
This manuscript was not sent to Hening, who in his Preface I. v. states:
. . . The volumes of Purvis
appear to have been bound up with blank leaves at the end for the reception of subsequent MS. laws, and to have been distributed
to the respective counties at different times; as some copies have more, and some less of those MS. acts transcribed into
them . . .
”
The date of printing of this compilation is not known, but was probably between 1683 and 1687, the dates of the governorship
of Lord Howard of Effingham, to whom, in that office, the book is dedicated by
J. P. [John Purvis].
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Collection of Virginia laws. 1661/2 Mar. 23.--1732. May 18.
1815 Catalogue, page 74. no. 201, as above,
fol.
VIRGINIA.
A Collection of all the Acts of Assembly, now in force, in the colony of Virginia. With the titles of such as are Expir’d,
or Repeal’d. And Notes in the Margin, shewing how, and at what Time, they were repeal’d . . . Publish’d, pursuant to an order
of the General Assembly, held at Williamsburg, in the year
m, dcc, xxvii.
Williamsburg: Printed by
William Parks,
m, dcc, xxxiii
. [1733.]
Law 11.
Folio. 315 leaves collating in fours, woodcut arms of the colony on the title-page; the list of subscribers on 4 pages at
the beginning includes several members of the Parks family with addresses in Shropshire.
Bound in at the end of this copy are the laws for 1734, 36, 38, 40, 42, together 111 leaves, with separate signatures and
pagination, caption titles, no imprint.
Evans 3728, 3849, 4094, 4317, 4616, 4617.
Swem 22517.
Hening I, v; II, iv.
Clayton-Torrence 124.
Wroth 70.
Half calf, repaired; part of one leaf, O
i, torn away. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On the fly-leaf is written
Robart Lewis law Book. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
This is the first collection of Virginia laws published in Virginia.
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Revisal of Virginia laws. 1661/2 Mar. 23.--1748. Oct. 27.
1815 Catalogue, page 74. no. 202, as above.
fol.
This copy is no longer in the Library of Congress. It was a duplicate of no. 1839, q.v.
[1834]
69
Acts of Assembly of Virginia. 1661/2 Mar. 23.--1768. Mar. 31.
1815 Catalogue, page 74. no. 203, as above.
fol.
This volume is no longer in the Library of Congress. It was a duplicate of no. 1840, q.v.
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