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The general laws and liberties of the Massachusets colony
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks * Tower 132
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Massachusetts.
- Standardized Title:
- Laws, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Massachusetts--Early works to 1800.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- [4], 161, [1], 162-170, [29], 6 p. ; 27 cm. (fol.)
- Edition:
- Revised & re-printed, by order of the General Court holden at Boston, May 15th, 1672 : Edward Rawson, Secr.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Mass.] : Printed by Samuel Green for John Usher of Boston, 1672.
- Notes:
- Title page in 2 states: 1) there is a comma after "Re-printed" in line 8 and a period after "Boston" in line 9; 2) there is a period after "Re-printed" and a comma after "Boston". Cf. Cushing for additional differences.
- "A summary of the laws foregoing alphabetically digested" (caption title) has separate pagination and register.
- The seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is found variously on A1 recto, A1 verso, and A2 (title page) verso. It appears to be stamped rather than printed. Leaf A1 is blank if it is not stamped.
- Errata: p. 170.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
- Local Notes:
- Library copy: wanting 'A summary of the laws foregoing'
- HSP in LCP.
- Charlemagne Tower's copy.
- Cited in:
- ESTC R208
- Wing (2nd ed.) M1003
- Evans 168
- Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 28
- OCLC:
- 12767344
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