Booksellers' papers, 1743-1781.

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Booksellers' papers, 1743-1781.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80093270

Letters, receipts and prospectuses of eighteenth-century English booksellers, for books by Thomas Becket, John Bell, Sir William Blackstone, Thomas Payne, and others.

1 v. (.1 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Becket, Thomas, 1720-

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Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799

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Payne was a bookseller in London, England. From the description of Receipt, 1754 July 20, to Mr. Nourss. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 9587774 Epithet: of Add MS 23817 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001300.0x0003e6 Epithet: of Add MS 32733 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001389.0x000002 ...

Blackstone, William, 1723-1780

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The noted jurist, judge, and legal writer William Blackstone established the study of England's common law as an accepted academic discipline, and his Oxford lectures were published in 1765-1769 as the famous and influential Commentaries on the Laws of England. In the years since then, in numerous editions and translations, this work provided the definitive account of the state of English law in the mid-18th century. From the description of Legal opinion of Sir William Blackstone on ...

Bell, John, 1745-1831

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