| Item Description: | "This work was sold by Fletcher for several years with supplemental sessions laws to date ... though after Fletcher relinquished the printing business (1770) these sessional supplements were actually printed by Anthony Henry". (Tremaine). - English Short Title Catalog, W41648. - Fleming & Alston. Early Canadian Printing, 111. - In this edition, the imprint has "printed by Robert Fletcher". In another edition, the imprint has "printed and sold by Robert Fletcher. - Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland. - Revised by John Duport and Jonathan Belcher. - Signatures: [pi]p2s [A]p2s Bp2s Cp1s D-Fp2s p2sA-Fp2s G-3Fp2s. - The final leaf (2F2) contains errata. - This was the first revised edition of Nova Scotia statutes. It contains session by session, 1758-Oct. 1766, the text of acts passed and still in force, with titles of acts passed by no longer in force. Laws of a temporary character ... were excluded from this work and published in a separate revised edition ... --Tremaine. - Tremaine, 111 |
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