| Other author/creator | Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831. |
| Other author/creator | Andrews, Ebenezer Turrell, 1766-1851. |
| Included Work | Washington, George, 1732-1799. Farewell address. |
| Included Work | United States. Constitution. |
| Included Work | Massachusetts. Constitution. |
| Uniform title | Laws, etc. (Compiled statutes : 1801) |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 895. ^A575643 |
| Contents |
(from title pages) Vol. I. Containing the laws, from November, 1780, to March, 1788, inclusively. -- Vol. II. Containing the laws from June, 1788, to June, 1798, inclusively. -- Vol. III. Containing the laws from January, 1799, to November, 1800, inclusively.--Also the appendix. |
| General note | Title varies slightly: v. 2-3 have " ... the title to real estate" in place of " ... the title of real estate." |
| General note | Dedication to the judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts signed on v. 1, p. [3], 1st count: By the editors ... Isaiah Thomas. Ebenezer T. Andrews. Boston, February, 1801. |
| General note | Vol. 3 also issued with a collective index as: A supplement to the second volume of Thomas's edition of the Perpetual laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, published in 1799. Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1801 (Not in Shaw & Shoemaker). |
| General note | Punctuation of imprint varies: v. 2-3 have a semi-colon following "Newbury-Street" in place of a comma. |
| General note | "Advertisement. The General Court of this commonwealth, having ordered a new edition of the perpetual statutes to be printed ... it was thought best, by the undersigned, to reprint and complete Thomas's edition of said laws, in three volumes, demi octavo ... Thomas & Andrews. Boston, February, 1801."--v. 1, p. [4], 1st count. |
| General note | Vol. 1: [4], 452 p.; v. 2: [3], 10-68, 25-510 p.; v. 3: [3], 6-257, [1] p. In v. 2, the first sequence of page numbers 25-68 is enclosed in square brackets. Last page of v. 3 blank. |
| General note | Errors in paging: v. 2, p. 245, 454 misnumbered 145, 445; v. 3, p. 209-224 misnumbered 109-124. |
| General note | Shaw & Shoemaker entry 895 records the following 5 volumes, confusing editions and including two later supplements: Vol. 1 Pr. by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, Mar. 1801. Vol. 2 Pr. by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, 1801. Vol. 3 Pr. by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, Mar. 1801. Vol. 4 Pr. by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, June 1807. Vol. 5, entitled "Laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts" pub. by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, May, 1817. |
| General note | With an index to each volume. |
| General note | "President Washington's Address. To the people of the United States."--v. 3, p. [121]-134. |
| References |
Shaw & Shoemaker 895 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 895). |