PHILADELPHIA 
Jailhouse Law — Philadelphia 1801
(A
View Not to Be Forgotten). Pennsylvania.
Collection of the penal laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia:
Pr. by Budd & Bartram, for the use of the Prison, 1801. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.6").
72 pp.
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Many institutions report microform holdings, but very few hold actual copies.
• Sabin 59986; Shaw & Shoemaker 1114. Contemporary-style quarter tan cloth over blue paper-covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Paper embrittled and somewhat fragile; pages age-toned and foxed.
Wood-Engravings by
Alexander Anderson [Berquin, Arnaud]. The looking-glass for the mind, or, intellectual mirror. Being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories, and interesting tales. Chiefly translated from that much admired work L'Ami Des Enfans. With elegant engravings of wood, by Anderson. Philadelphia: Alexander Towar; Hogan & Thompson, 1832. 12mo. 216 pp.
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children's classic with illustrations by America's finest early wood engraver. A handsome edition.
• Publisher's sheep, gilt-stamped label and modest gilt rules to spine; joints open and some leather lost to front cover and spine extremities, but volume sturdy. Foxing to outermost (blank) pages, occasional light spots in margins. The impressions of the images tend to be very crisp and satisfactory. (709)
“Northern Liberties” Broadside. Partially printed, completed in manuscript, beginning: To --------- Esq. Attorney of the Court of Common Pleas, at Philadelphia in the County of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania to any other Attorney of the said Court, or of any other Court elsewhere. Philadelphia: before 1790. Folio. 1 page (13.125" x 8").
Tyson and Walton signed the document on 24 August 1791.
An excellent display piece.
• Old folds with a few short tears. Residue of mounting tape at two points on the left margin. (14729)
Whither,
the
AMERICAN
Economy?
[Carey, Mathew]. Addresses of The Philadelphia
Society for the Promotion of National Industry...Fourth edition. Philadelphia:
Pub. by M. Carey & Son, pr. by G.L. Austin, Dec. 20, 1819. 8vo (19.2 cm,
7.625"). xi, [1 (blank) pp., pp. [9]–248. 
They address then-pressing topics: tariffs, protectionism, development of domestic industry, and European foreign policy.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 49095; Clarkin, Mathew Carey Bibliography, 1133. Recent quarter tan cloth with paper sides in the style of the era. Ex-library with stamp on title-page; paper brittle and age-toned. One page torn and repaired.
A
CURIOUSManuscript
Playlet — The Lovers
(China, Really? Not
Hardly!). Anonymous. Manuscript, "The Lovers, A
Tragedy in Five Acts. Founded on an incident in Eastern History." On paper,
in English. [Philadelphia?, ca. 1830]. Folio (32 cm, 12.5"), 14 ff. (12.5 written
on). 
The play's length is that of a "filler" piece in a jam-packed 19th-century theatrical night of three or four plays (or parts thereof) and other "entertainments"—or, the length of a school or home production. 
The style is distinctly amateur/naive. E.g., the euphonious exotic names are far from consistently Chinese and one character is "carried [from his 'chinese cottage'] to the ganges"; the author confuses exit and exeunt ("Exeunt Priest")—we wonder if this blithe vagueness as to geography and world cultures, and the seeming lack of even basic classical education, suggest a lively-minded and enthusiastically play-going but unrigorously schooled female writer?
Provenance: Gift inscription: "Horace W. Smith, Esq. to W.W., 1863." A pencil note says "By J. Howard Payne in his handwriting, W.W."—but the handwriting does not match that of Payne's MSS. at Yale and Brown Universities.
• First leaf dust-soiled and now separated. Edges of some leaves chipped costing a few letters and, very rarely, an entire word; lost letters and words are easily supplied by context. Comfortable, for working with.
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