![[GREAT BRITAIN.] ACTS of PARLIAMENT. A collection of 142 parliamentary acts affecting the American colonies and the United States of America. London: Printed by Mark Baskett and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett (later Charles or George Eyre & William Strahan), 1764-1817.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/NYR/2012_NYR_02572_0229_000(great_britain_acts_of_parliament_a_collection_of_142_parliamentary_act125740).jpg?w=1)
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[GREAT BRITAIN.] ACTS of PARLIAMENT. A collection of 142 parliamentary acts affecting the American colonies and the United States of America. London: Printed by Mark Baskett and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett (later Charles or George Eyre & William Strahan), 1764-1817.
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[GREAT BRITAIN.] ACTS of PARLIAMENT. A collection of 142 parliamentary acts affecting the American colonies and the United States of America. London: Printed by Mark Baskett and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett (later Charles or George Eyre & William Strahan), 1764-1817.
142 Acts. Folio (12¼ x 7¾ in.). Woodcut vignette of the royal arms, but a few later examples with drop titles and woodcut arms. Occasional spotting and foxing. Disbound and housed in paper folders in seven red half morocco boxes. Provenance: James S. Copley (bookplate).
A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF THE "LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS" THAT LED THE AMERICAN COLONISTS TO REVOLT, starting from the Stamp Act of 1765, its repeal in 1766, then the Declaratory Act--Parliament's exercise in lifting one foot out of the American fire and firmly planting the other by declaring Parliament's right to legislate over the Colonies "in all matters whatsoever." Other pieces include the Townshend duties with its tea tax; the Tea Act of 1773, which granted the East India Co. a monopoly and provoked the Boston Tea Party, which in turn provoked London's brutal retaliation with the Boston Port Act and the other "Intolerable Acts." There is Lord North's abortive peace overtures of 1778--appointing commissioners in an act intent on "quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of the Colonies, Plantations and Provinces of North America." Then, "An Act to enable His Majesty to conclude a Peace or Truce with certain Colonies in North America." An essential collection of the Revolutionary War era.
142 Acts. Folio (12¼ x 7¾ in.). Woodcut vignette of the royal arms, but a few later examples with drop titles and woodcut arms. Occasional spotting and foxing. Disbound and housed in paper folders in seven red half morocco boxes. Provenance: James S. Copley (bookplate).
A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF THE "LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS" THAT LED THE AMERICAN COLONISTS TO REVOLT, starting from the Stamp Act of 1765, its repeal in 1766, then the Declaratory Act--Parliament's exercise in lifting one foot out of the American fire and firmly planting the other by declaring Parliament's right to legislate over the Colonies "in all matters whatsoever." Other pieces include the Townshend duties with its tea tax; the Tea Act of 1773, which granted the East India Co. a monopoly and provoked the Boston Tea Party, which in turn provoked London's brutal retaliation with the Boston Port Act and the other "Intolerable Acts." There is Lord North's abortive peace overtures of 1778--appointing commissioners in an act intent on "quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of the Colonies, Plantations and Provinces of North America." Then, "An Act to enable His Majesty to conclude a Peace or Truce with certain Colonies in North America." An essential collection of the Revolutionary War era.