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Item #33917 A Revisal of All the Public Acts of the State of North Carolina and of the State of Tennessee now in force in the State of Tennessee. John HAYWOOD, ed.
A Revisal of All the Public Acts of the State of North Carolina and of the State of Tennessee now in force in the State of Tennessee....

A Revisal of All the Public Acts of the State of North Carolina and of the State of Tennessee now in force in the State of Tennessee....

Nashville: Printed and sold by Thomas G. Bradford, 1809. 8vo. [4], 474, [10]pp. Repaired tears to pages 161-174.

Contemporary calf, worn

Provenance: James Allison (early signatures)

Pioneer Nashville imprint.

The third recorded Nashville imprint, and popularly referred to as the first work of "book" length to issue from a Nashville press. Copies differ in terms of the number of errata; in this copy, the list occupies three full pages. "...The first known bound book printed in this city...[and] justifiably a much-sought-after Tennessee rarity" (Allen).

Allen Imprints 141; Allen Rarities 16; Shaw & Shoemaker 18744.

Item #33917

Price: $2,500.00

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