NEW YORK CITY - KENT, JAMES] Laws and Ordinances, Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New-York ... Mayoralty of Richard Varick, Esquire . New York: George Forman, 1797. First edition, James Kent's signed copy with further notations to front endpaper likely in his hand. Modern cloth with a red lettering label. 8 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches (20.5 x 12 cm); 67, [1] pp., with early endpapers with notations. Stamps to title, faint dampstain to upper margin of first leaves, some stains to endpapers but generally fresh within, bookplates; Together with a second Kent work, lacking its title page but with caption title In the Court of Errors. Livingston and Fulton, vs. James Van Ingen, and Others. Opinion of Chief Justice Kent. [c. 1812]. Later boards, worn. A note at front reports this to be Kent's annotated copy, but this unconfirmed. At the time of this publication, Kent was Recorder for the City of New York. The notations present here list the magistrates of the city in 1797, including Kent. Later in his career Kent would become Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court and, in 1814, Chancellor of New York. C The New York City Bar Association
NEW YORK CITY - KENT, JAMES] Laws and Ordinances, Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New-York ... Mayoralty of Richard Varick, Esquire . New York: George Forman, 1797. First edition, James Kent's signed copy with further notations to front endpaper likely in his hand. Modern cloth with a red lettering label. 8 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches (20.5 x 12 cm); 67, [1] pp., with early endpapers with notations. Stamps to title, faint dampstain to upper margin of first leaves, some stains to endpapers but generally fresh within, bookplates; Together with a second Kent work, lacking its title page but with caption title In the Court of Errors. Livingston and Fulton, vs. James Van Ingen, and Others. Opinion of Chief Justice Kent. [c. 1812]. Later boards, worn. A note at front reports this to be Kent's annotated copy, but this unconfirmed. At the time of this publication, Kent was Recorder for the City of New York. The notations present here list the magistrates of the city in 1797, including Kent. Later in his career Kent would become Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court and, in 1814, Chancellor of New York. C The New York City Bar Association
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