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Sale 2687 - Lot 111

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(CONNECTICUT.) Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America. 8, 8, [2], 396, 403-475 pages plus 37 blank leaves. Folio, contemporary sheep, moderate wear; minor wear, scattered foxing, the 6 pages of the Articles of Confederation replaced with an 8-page printing of the Constitution, manuscript notes on the index leaf, interleaved with additional manuscript index leaves (one of them with a full closed tear and early pin repair), other minor wear to contents; signature of early owner on title page. New London, CT: Timothy Green and others, 1784-1793
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The earliest Connecticut state acts and laws after the Revolution. The volume was originally printed with the Articles of Confederation following the 8-page introduction, but here (as in many copies of this second printing per Evans) the Articles have been replaced before binding with the Constitution, as printed by Hudson & Goodwin of Hartford in 1789.

The initial publication ran to 265 pages, and is here bound with a long series of separate publications of session laws, complete through 1793 (the gap at page 397 being an error in pagination per Evans 22426). The acts of January 1789 (pages 371-378) includes the acts regulating the election of Connecticut's congressmen to the newly created First Congress.

Evans 18410, 18412, 18415, 18965, 18967, 19569, 19571, 20286, 20290, 21013, [alternate printing of 21014 printed by Nathaniel Patten of Hartford, recorded in ESTC as W42446], 21751, 21752, 21756, 22422, 22426, 23275, 23279, 23283, 24212, 24215, 25330, 25333.

Provenance: John Tallmadge (1757-1823), a longtime member of Connecticut's General Assembly and brother of Revolutionary hero Benjamin Tallmadge.

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