Maryland Imprints of the Colonial Period, 1689-1776

land and Avalon, &c. Annoq; Dom' 1726.| [Baltimore arms] By Authority:| Annapolis:
Printed by W. Parks.| [1726.]

Fol. [A]-B²; 4 leaves; pages [ij-8; p. [i]: title; pp. 3-8: Acts of session of July 12-25, 1726, with session heading.

Leaf measures: nf x 7 J inches. Type page, p. 7: 232 x 131 mm.

MDioc.

36. Proposals | for a | Tobacco-Law,| in the Province of Maryland. | Humbly offered to the
Consideration of | the Legislature, and all Lovers of their | Country. | In a Letter from a
Gentleman to William Parks, Printer | in Annapolis.| [Type device] Annapolis: Printed in
the Year, 1726.| (Price One Shilling.) |

Sm. 410. [A]-B⁴, C³; 11 leaves; pages [1]-21, [22]; p. [i]: title; pp. 3-21: text, with head-piece and heading,
The Necessity of a Tobacco-Law consider'd.|, signed at end, "A Lover of his Country", and dated, "Nov. 19,
1726"; p. 21: "Advertisement", (announcing the publication of the "Compleat Body of Laws" in the following
March. See below, No. 38.)

Leaf measures: 7! x 6 inches. Type page, p. 4: 5! x 4! inches.

See below, Nos. 37 and 51.

NYHS. MdHS. (photostat copy).

1727

36a. Advertisement to the Reader.| In the 237th Page of this Volume, there is | printed by
Mistake, An Act Entituled,| An Act for Limitation of Trespass and E-| jectment. But the
said Act is not in Force,| being dissented to by the Right Honourable | the Lord Proprie-
tary: Therefore the Reader | is desired to cross it out with a Pen.| [Annapolis: Printed by
William Parks. 1727.]

Broadside. 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches, with head and tail pieces.

Volume referred to is No. 38, entered below, which in many copies, as for example MdHS. and MDioc. have
this "Advertisement to the Reader" pasted on the inside back cover.

37. A | Letter | from | a Freeholder, | to | a Member of the Lower-House of | Assembly, of
the Province of | Maryland.| [Type device] Annapolis:] Printed and Sold by William
Parks: And to be sold in all | the Counties of the Province, 1727.| (Price One Shilling.) |

Sm. 4to. [A]-C², [D]¹; 7 leaves; pages [1]-13, [14]; p. [1]: tide; pp. 3-13: text, with head-piece and heading, A Let-
ter from a Freeholder, to a Member | of the Lower House of Assembly.)

Leaf measures, p. 5: 7 5/8 x 5 15/16 inches. Type page, p. 5: 154 x 112 mm.

"Sir," writes the Freeholder, "I am very glad that a Gentleman who is a Friend to his Country, (as I am firmly
perswaded the Author of the late Letter to the Printer really is) has communicated his thoughts to the Publick,
concerning a thing so much desired and so much wanted as a Tobacco-Law,...." It is probable that the "Letter
to the Printer" on the subject of a "Tobacco-Law" which the Freeholder here refers to was Proposals for a To-
bacco-Law, published late in 1726. See above, No. 36; sec also No. 51.

NYPL. MdHS. (photostat copy).

38. MARYLAND, PROVINCE OF. A | Compleat Collection | of the | Laws of Maryland. | With |
an Index, and Marginal Notes, directing | to the several Laws, and the chief Matters | con-
tained in them. | Collected and Printed by Authority. | [Baltimore arms] Annapolis:|
Printed by William Parks. MDCCXXVII.|

Sm. fol. lAj-Z², Aa-Zz², Aaa-Zzz², Aaaa-Gggg², Gggg-Hhhh², (signature Gggg repeated); 156 leaves; pp. [I-
IV], 1-300, [i-viiij; p. [I]: tide; p. [111]: dedication to Charles Lord Baltimore, Governor Benedict Leonard Cal-
vert and the two houses of Assembly, signed, "William Parks"; pp. 1-300: text, with heading, "Laws of Mary-
land", running heads; pp. 297-300: two private laws relating to the City of Annapolis; pp. [i-vi]: index; last leaf
is blank but genuine. (Pasted on inside back cover of one copy in Maryland Historical Society is "Advertisement
to the Reader" calling attention to act on p. 237. See above, No. 36a.)

Leaf measures: 11 9/16 x 7 1/4 inches. Type page, p. 2: 244 x 130 mm.

[171)