Shelfmark
Fp.2.05
Main entry--corporate name
Uniform title
[Laws, etc. (Public general acts) 1721]
Title
Anno regni Georgii Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, septimo. At the parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the seventeenth day of March, Anno Dom. 1714. in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord George, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. And from thence continued by several prorogations to the eighth day of December, 1721, being the sixth session of this present parliament.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed by John Baskett, printer to the Kings most excellent majesty; and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd., 1721.
Physical description
588, 14, [6] p. ; 32cm (Fo.).
Note
Title from title-page of first statute. This general title-page precedes each individual act, with the exception of the final act, which describes the seventh session of the fifth Parliament, 'continued by several prorogations to the thirty first day of July, 1721'.
Note
The final six leaves contain a table that indexes the public Acts (i-xxxii) and lists private Acts, 1-34, of the sixth Parliament, which has a colophon dated 1721, and a second table that indexes the single public Act and lists the single private Acts of the seventh Parliament.
Note
T.p. vignettes (royal arms); woodcut initials; printed marginalia.
Note
Chiefly black letter.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N50676
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplates of Eton College on front pastedown and on verso of title-page.
Binding
18th century mid brown calf; blind tooled double fillet border; second frame of blind tooled double fillet with swag tool and fleurons at corners; gold tooled roll on board edges; imprint of lost spine label with tooled letters; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dk.3.6.
Subject
Great Britain Parliament
Subject
Statutes Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Subject
Law Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Subject
Great Britain History George I, 1714-1727 Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Baskett, John, 1666 or 7 - 1742 printer.
Added entry--name
Great Britain Sovereign (1714-1727 : George I)
Added entry--name
Assigns of Thomas Newcomb printer.
Added entry--name
Assigns of Henry Hills printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B43865