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"Advertisement. The General Court of this commonwealth, having ordered a new edition of the perpetual statutes to be printed ... it was thought best, by the undersigned, to reprint and complete Thomas's edition of said laws, in three volumes, demi octavo ... Thomas & Andrews. Boston, February, 1801."--v. 1, p. [4], 1st count "President Washington's Address. To the people of the United States."--v. 3, p. [121]-134 Dedication to the judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts signed on v. 1, p. [3], 1st count: By the editors ... Isaiah Thomas. Ebenezer T. Andrews. Boston, February, 1801 Errors in paging: v. 2, p. 245, 454 misnumbered 145, 445; v. 3, p. 209-224 misnumbered 109-124 Punctuation of imprint varies: v. 2-3 have a semi-colon following "Newbury-Street" in place of a comma Shaw & Shoemaker entry 895 records the following 5 volumes, confusing editions and including two later supplements: Vol. 1 Pr. by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, Mar. 1801. Vol. 2 Pr. by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, 1801. Vol. 3 Pr. by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, Mar. 1801. Vol. 4 Pr. by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, June 1807. Vol. 5, entitled "Laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts" pub. by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, May, 1817 Title varies slightly: v. 2-3 have " ... the title to real estate" in place of " ... the title of real estate Vol. 1: [4], 452 p.; v. 2: [3], 10-68, 25-510 p.; v. 3: [3], 6-257, [1] p. In v. 2, the first sequence of page numbers 25-68 is enclosed in square brackets. Last page of v. 3 blank Vol. 3 also issued with a collective index as: A supplement to the second volume of Thomas's edition of the Perpetual laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, published in 1799. Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1801 (Not in Shaw & Shoemaker) With an index to each volume (from title pages) Vol. I. Containing the laws, from November, 1780, to March, 1788, inclusively. -- Vol. II. Containing the laws from June, 1788, to June, 1798, inclusively. -- Vol. III. Containing the laws from January, 1799, to November, 1800, inclusively.--Also the appendix. Electronic text and image data Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
