sir james marriott (10 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. First Edition. xxxii (but actually 40pp), 322pp + 2pp index and advertisement. Full calf decorated on the sides and on the edges, spine with red leather label lettered in gold. Bookplate on the front pastedown, signature (William L. Putnam) on the front free endpaper. Loss to the spine ends, front joint partially cracked. Internally very clean. A good+ copy.; Octavo.

4to, pp. 32; uncut and stitched as issued in the original marbled wrappers. A little scuffed at edges, but preserved in remarkable condition. First and only edition, and a presentation copy, inscribed 'From the Author' in an early hand, at the top right of the title page. A small manuscript correction on p. v of the prefatory Advertisement may be in the author's hand. This collection is not assigned an author in ESTC, but in fact it can be shown to be by the judge and politician James Marriott (1730-1803). His poem on the death of Prince Frederick (father of George III) had been printed in 1751 as part of the Cambridge collection of verses marking the event, with his name and college, Trinity Hall, identifying him with complete certainty; and that is the poem reprinted here on pp. 27-32. Marriott went on to abandon verse for the law, and was indefatigable in his thirst for advancement: he became a fellow and then Master of his college (a post he held for almost forty years), and pursued rewards of all kinds, in politics and wealth. Knighted in 1778 and made a judge the same year, he also became an MP; in the Commons he was strongly opposed to American independence. In about 1760, while still quite young, Marriott apparently wooed the young Hester Salusbury, but she had no taste for him and her father was opposed, so nothing came of the approach; she went on to marry Henry Thrale. Rare: ESTC locates nine copies, in six libraries: British Library (three copies), Cambridge UL and Bodleian in the UK; and Queen's (Kingston, Ontario), Yale (two copies) and Johns Hopkins University in North America.

8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 292. full modern calf (some scattered foxing). First Edition. "The unrest in the Province of Quebec at this period and the endeavour of the American Continental Congress to draw the Canadians into the net of rebellion, so alarmed the home government that it passed the Quebec Act to make more effectual provision for the colony. By order-in-council the King had instructed the Advocate-General [Marriott], Attorney-General [Edward Thurlow], and Solicitor-General [Alexander Wedderburn] to prepare a general plan of civil and criminal law for the colony. It was laid before the King-in-Council, and a small number of copies were ordered to be printed for official use." (Lande) Marriott's report, which apparently was privately printed after the passage of the Quebec Act, set forth his opposition to the restoration of French civil law and the granting of religious freedom, and his support for the complete assimilation of the French colonists and the encouragement of British settlement to promote economic development. Bound in at end is a folded copy of 'The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser', dated Thursday, June 9, 1774. It records Marriott's examination in the Lower Assembly during the debates on the Quebec bill. Adams 74-55. Dionne II 791. JCB II 1975. Lande 601. Morgan p. 248. Sabin 44690. TPL 455. Vlach 523.

The University of Cambridge Asserts its Rights Marriott, Sir James [1730?-1803]. The Rights and Privileges of Both the Universities and of the University of Cambridge in Particular Defended in a Charge to the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions for the Peace Held in and For the Town of Cambridge the Tenth Day of October 1768. Also An Argument in the Case of the Colleges of Christ and Emmanuel. Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon, 1769. 36 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light toning, leaves starting to separate at ends but secure, light foxing and soiling in a few places, somewhat heavier to title page, small chip to bottom gutter of final leaf. $650. * Only edition. The independence of Oxford and Cambridge had been severely reduced by the reforms of Archbishop Laud in the seventeenth century, but by the mid-eighteenth century, the universities began to reassert their authority with the help of figures like Sir James Marriott and Sir William Blackstone. The present title documents an argument made by Marriott that the universities, particularly several colleges of Cambridge, were too heavily taxed under the poor laws. OCLC locates 3 copies of this title in law libraries (UC-Berkeley, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania). The ESTC adds a copy at Harvard Law School. English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) T45069.