| Binding Note: | Binding: excessively cropped, especially in the upper margin, otherwise a very good set. Eighteenth century gold-tooled red morocco. Subjects of the acts tooled on the upper covers. Broad border on lower covers, formed of alternating flower and leaf branches at right angles to the edges, with a bird perched on the leaf compartments, with lettering-pieces in the second and third. Comb marbled endleaves. A collection of thirty-four acts dated between 1725 and 1763. They are concerned with duties on spirits and wines, sugar, tea, regulations for the prevention of smuggling and other evasions of duties; for the control of manufacturing and trade, particularly in relation to the plantations in the East Indies; and for regulating seamen's wages and pensions. |
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