VIRGINIA ANTEBELLUM POLITICAL VOLUME, "Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention, of 1829-30. To Which are Subjoined, the New Constitution of Virginia, and the Votes of the People", Richmond: Samuel Shepherd & Co. for Ritchie & Cook, 1830. Original full-leather binding. Bookplate for Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (1807-1891), prominent Virginia lawyer and American political figure from Staunton. Also signed by Stuart below bookplate.
Fine condition, binding with less than normal rubbing, interior tight and primarily clean except for some foxing to beginning and end.
Provenance: From the estate of Lee S. Cochran, Staunton, VA.
Catalogue Note: This volume is important to the formation of the future state of West Virginia. The primary debate at the convention was the question of representation, the delegates from the western counties being determined to break the stranglehold which the slave-holding Tidewater had on the legislature. The disparate interests of the two regions reflected in these debates later manifested themselves when the western counties seceded from Confederate Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia.

Fine condition, binding with less than normal rubbing, interior tight and primarily clean except for some foxing to beginning and end.