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1801 · 008979 — Lancaster Pa: Francis Bailey 1801. Hardcover. Good. v 1 719 24 p.; 32 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Laws of Pennsylvania. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at a Session which was Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia on 5 Dec. 1797 Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1798; Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at a Session which was Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia on 6 Dec. 1796 Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1797; Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at a Session which was Begun and Held at the Borough of Lancaster on 3 Dec. 1799 Lancaster: Francis & Robert Bailey 1800; and Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at a Session which was Begun and Held at the Borough of Lancaster on 5 Nov. 1800 Lancaster: Francis Bailey 1801 have separate title pages but continuous pagination. Former owner's name "J. B. Smith" on all but one title page. Occasional discrete corrections and additions in ink throughout presumably by Smith. Jonathan Bayard Smith 1742-1812 Philadelphia merchant and member of the Continental Congress in 1777-1778 was prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia from 1777 to 1788 and a justice of that court from 1778 to 1788. Beginning with 1792 he served two years as alderman of Philadelphia and in the latter year was auditor general of Pennsylvania under Gov. Thomas Mifflin. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed with loss at ends of spine and corners; joints are cracked; old dampstain in lower part of pages 189-240; occasional foxing heavier on a few pages; occasional ink notations; otherwise clean and solid. Francis Bailey hardcover