Author: Great Britain, Parliament
Title: Public General Statutes Passed in the 7th & 8th Year of the Reign of His Majesty KING GEORGE IV (1827)
Description: London, G.Eyre & A.Strahan 1827 . Thick small folio original brown sugar-paper covered boards, paper-spine defective but holding (printed paper label partly preserved), hinges cracked & held by chords, tips bumped & worn; xx+450pgs incl. A Table of Statutes and an Index; printed side-notes on outer margins (some few contemporary marginal notations/ underlinings in ink). Some leaves partly uncut/unopened; first gathering slack. First & last four leaves sl.foxed/stained. Internally clean (deckle edges bit dusty). G+ *75 Public/General/National Statutes printed in full; plus 112 Local & Personal Acts giving title & brief contents only; plus 72 Private Acts (only listed). *Includes Giving effect to Treaties against SLAVE TRADE (with Sweden & Brazil); Prohibition of Spring Guns & Man-traps; Prevention of Corrupt Practices at Elections of MPs; and a number of "Consolidation Acts" in Criminal Law.

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