How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX
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[JAY, John (1745-1829), his copy]. The Practical Register i...
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[JAY, John (1745-1829), his copy]. The Practical Register in Chancery. Or, A Compleat Collection of the Standing Orders and Rules of Practice in Chancery. London: J. Nutt for D. Brown [et al], 1714. 8vo (191 x 114 mm). One-page advertisement facing title; 10pp. table with errata at end. Modern quarter morocco. Provenance: John Jay (his ownership signature on title-page dated 1771, numerous notations in the margins, text block fore-edge titled); Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), signature on title of the eldest son of John Jay; Gifted from Peter Jay to the New York Law Institute (notation on title and Library stamp over Peter Jay signature). FROM THE LIBRARY OF A FOUNDING FATHER AND THE FIRST CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES.
