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Richmond: Samuel Shepherd & Co, 1833. Full Leather. Good+ binding. Octavo. viii, 584 pp. First edition. In original sheep. Binding a bit abraded and spine beginning to dry, but generally a solid and fairly attractive copy; previous owner name and early family library stamps on the endpaper and preliminary blank leaf; contents toned, at times heavily, particularly the first half of the textblock. American Imprints 22498.

Richmond: Samuel Shepherd & Co, 1833. Hardcover. Octavo, viii, 584 pages; G-; Fully bound in sheep skin with red label and gilt lettering to spine; Boards have blindtooling along edges, light edgewear and bumping to corners, light rubbing with scrape on front cover (near spine tail), and light+ cracking and wear to spine with chipping to tail; Textblock shows moderate to moderate+ age toning to edges and interior of first 280 pages, light+ age toning to edges/interior of remaining textblock, light+ foxing to paste downs, end pages, and title page, and uneven light to moderate foxing and damp-staining throughout interior. RWO. 1365023. Special Collections.

Richmond: Samuel Pleasants, Jun and Henry Pace, 1803. Full Leather. Fair binding. Octavo. [2], vi, 454, [2 (blank)], 72 (index) pp. First edition, thus. In contemporary sheep with red morocco title label on the spine. A second volume of the Revised Code was issued in Samuel Pleasants in 1808. Binding is worn with chipping at the head of the spine; joints starting; contemporary owner notes marked through on the front endpapers. Textblock remains solid; pages generally darkened. Interesting look into early Virginia law from, according to Shaw & Shoemaker, 1748-1802 with substantive material from laws governing militias to laws about slavery and free blacks. Herein are also reprinted the Virginia Declaration of Rights (6 May 1776) and the first Virginia Constitution (29 June 1776). Uncommon. Shaw & Shoemaker 5512.

Richmond: Samuel Shepherd, 1833. Original sheep [rubbed, joints splitting, large piece of spine bottom missing, split running part way through spine]. viii, 584pp. Endpapers removed, manuscript notations on pastedowns and in blank margin of title page. Foxed, index leaves browned. Good to Good+. The new Acts include a detailed Code restricting the rights of slaves and Free Negroes, passed after the Nat Turner insurrection. The laws prohibit their religious instruction, except upon permission of their ministers, and then only by white preachers; bar their owning or keeping weapons or ammunition, or distributing liquor; prescribe the punishment of death "without benefit of clergy" for assaulting a white person with intent to kill; bar assemblies "by free negroes or mulattoes," as well as slaves. In addition, the 1830 Constitution as well as its enabling legislation is printed, along with Acts on a variety of subjects. FIRST EDITION. II Harv. Law Cat. 847. AI 22498 [5].