Charge to the grand jury : the earliest extant Virginia imprint.
2006
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Title
Charge to the grand jury : the earliest extant Virginia imprint.
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[United States] : [publisher not identified], [2006?]
Description
1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages)
Summary
Governor William Gooch's Charge to the Grand Jury at a general court, held in Williamsburg on October 19, 1730, and printed by William Parks that same year. According to pages included in the LLMC version, the original print was believed to be the earliest extant Virginia imprint. The original was found in the Archives of Fulham Palace in London; the facsimile was from Lawrence C Wroth.
Note
Includes facsimile copy of: Charge to the grand jury : at a General Court held at the capitol of the city of Williamsburg, in Virginia, on Monday the 19th of October, 1730 / by the Honourable William Gooch, Esq ; governour of Virginia. Publish'd at the request of several gentlemen. Williamsburg, [Virginia] : printed and sold by William Parks., M, DCC, XXX [1730]
"The Issues of the Several Presses of William Parks at Ludlow, Hereford and Reading in England and at Annapolis and Williamsburg in Colonial America, 1719-1749."--Page 1.
"On pages 17, 18, 19, of the foregoing biographical sketch [The issues of the several presses of William Parks ...] reasons have been given for believing that Governor Gooch's Charge to the Grand Jury is the earliest issue of the Virginia press of which a copy is known. In the same section of the narrative it is shown that it was at least the fourth separate piece to issue from the press, but as there seem to remain in the great libraries of Europe and America no copies of the first three productions, and as no bibliographer seems ever to have met with a copy of any one of them, the Charge assumes first rate im- portance in the annals of American bibliography. The single known copy of this document remains in the Fulham Palace Library in London, where it was sent probably by Governor Gooch to the Bishop of London, and whence a photographic copy was obtained for use in this book."--Page 2.
"The Issues of the Several Presses of William Parks at Ludlow, Hereford and Reading in England and at Annapolis and Williamsburg in Colonial America, 1719-1749."--Page 1.
"On pages 17, 18, 19, of the foregoing biographical sketch [The issues of the several presses of William Parks ...] reasons have been given for believing that Governor Gooch's Charge to the Grand Jury is the earliest issue of the Virginia press of which a copy is known. In the same section of the narrative it is shown that it was at least the fourth separate piece to issue from the press, but as there seem to remain in the great libraries of Europe and America no copies of the first three productions, and as no bibliographer seems ever to have met with a copy of any one of them, the Charge assumes first rate im- portance in the annals of American bibliography. The single known copy of this document remains in the Fulham Palace Library in London, where it was sent probably by Governor Gooch to the Bishop of London, and whence a photographic copy was obtained for use in this book."--Page 2.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from page 2 (LLMC Digital, viewed December 8, 2021)
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LLMC-Digital Collection
Place of Publication or Printing
United States -- Virginia -- Williamsburg.
Language
English
Includes
Virginia. General Court. Charge to the grand jury : at a General Court held at the capitol of the city of Williamsburg, in Virginia, on Monday the 19th of October, 1730.
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