English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance.

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Providence, 1774. 2d Am. ed. A Profound Influence in Pre-Revolutionary America: The Landmark 1774 Providence Edition of Henry Care's English Liberties [Care, Henry (1646-1688)]. N[elson], W[illiam] [b.1653], Editor. English Liberties, Or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance. Containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, The Statute De Tallagio, Non Concedendo, The Habeas Corpus Act, And Several Other Statutes; With Comments on Each of Them. Likewise, Of Ship-Money: Of Tonnage and Poundage. Of Parliaments, and the Qualification and Choice of Members: Of the Three Estates, And of the Settlement of the Crown by Parliament. Together with a Short History of the Succession, Not by Any Hereditary Right: Also a Declaration of the Liberties of the Subject: And of the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy. The Petition of Right; With a Short but Impartial Relation of the Difference Between King Charles I and the Long Parliament, Concerning the Prerogative of the King, The Liberties of the Subject, And the Rise of the Civil Wars. Of Trials by Juries, and of the Qualifications of Jurors; Their Punishment for Misbehaviour, And of Challenges to Them. Lastly, Of Justices of the Peace, And Coroners: With Many Law Cases Throughout the Whole. Corrected and Improved. Providence: Printed and Sold by John Carter, 1774. viii, 350, [6] pp. Includes six-page subscriber list. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/2"). Period-style quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt fillets to boards at edges of morocco, raised bands, gilt title and gilt fillets to spine. Moderate toning and light foxing to interior, corner folds to final few leaves, light browning to preliminaries, tiny stain to title page at head of gutter, its upper-outside corner lacking with loss of part of 'e' and all of 's' in the word 'Liberties' of title, short clean tears to upper-outside corners of following two leaves. A handsome copy. $1,500. * Second American edition. This 1774 Providence printing represents the second American edition of Henry Care's seminal layman's guide to the English Constitution. Appearing in the same year as the First Continental Congress and the passage of the Intolerable Acts, this edition was published at a critical historical juncture. As noted in the publisher's preface, the work was "principally designed for America," incorporating contemporary commentary intended to bolster colonial argum. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 77906

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