The Public and General Statutes Passed by the Congress, Volume I.

1828. Supervised by Joseph Story [United States]. Story, Joseph [1779-1845], Supervising Editor. The Public and General Statutes Passed by the Congress of the United States of America, From 1789 to 1827 Inclusive, Whether Expired, Repealed, Or in Force; Arranged in Chronological Order, with Marginal References, And a Copious Index. To Which is Added the Constitution of the United States, And an Appendix. Published Under the Inspection of Joseph Story. Boston: Published by Wells and Lilly, 1828. xii, 825 pp. Volume I of a three-volume set. Modern library cloth with red and black lettering pieces to spine. Very good. Card pocket to rear pastedown. Law library stamps to page edges, rear pastedown and front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean. A nice copy. $150. * First edition. "The present edition...embraces all the public Acts, whether they are expired, or repealed, or are now in force, with the exception of such only, as are of a very limited and temporary nature, and do not enter into the general Jurisprudence of the Country. (...) To these volumes a copious verbal index has been annexed, so as to make the facility of reference as complete as possible. The whole work has passed under the inspection of Mr. Justice Story, who has given it an attentive examination" (Volume I, iv-v). Babbitt, Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 554.