CARE & NELSON. English Liberties.
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Rhode Island. - Henry CARE & William NELSON. English Liberties, or the Free-Born Subject's Inheritance. Containing the Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, Habeas Corpus Act...Continued with large Additions by William Nelson. Sixth edition, Corrected and Improved. Providence, R.I.: 1774. Octavo. (Foxed, title with upper outer corner lacking with loss of one character). Modern leather-backed boards, spine gilt. Despite the title: this is actually the 2nd American edition. A pre-Revolution printing of the Magna Carta and other statutes, accompanied by related essays. A note on page viii explains that this edition was "principally designed for America"; it was likely intended to remind the colonists of their rights. The subscriber list includes numerous Rhode Islanders who played important roles in the Revolution, including both war-era governors. Alden, Rhode Island 532; Evans 13185; Sabin 10819.
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