An Abridgement of the Statutes of Ireland, From the First Session..

1754. Dublin: Printed by George Abraham Grierson, 1754. Dublin: Printed by George Abraham Grierson, 1754. Ireland in the Mid-Eighteenth Century [Ireland]. Bullingbrooke, Edward, Compiler. Belcher, Jonathan, Compiler. An Abridgement of the Statutes of Ireland, From the First Session of Parliament in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward the Second, To the End of the Twenty Fifth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the Second; And of All the English and British Statutes which Extend to and Bind Ireland; With Tables of the Statutes in their Chronological Order, Directing to the Heads Under which They are Abridged; The Statutes Taken from Any English Statutes, The English Statutes from Which any Irish Statutes are Taken, Such Statutes as are to be Given in Charge at the Assises, Such Statutes as Are to be Given in Charge at the Quarter-Sessions, Such Statutes as Are Injoined to be Read in Churches; Together with an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters Referring to the Titles and Paragraphs in the Abridgement, And to the Respective Statutes; And also the New Rules. Dublin: Printed by George Abraham Grierson, 1754. xii, [xxiv], 977; [351] pp. Quarto (10" x 8"; 25.4 x 20.3 cm). Later cloth, red and black lettering pieces to spine, endpapers renewed. Light soiling, minor rubbing to lettering pieces, corners bumped, light toning to text, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to foot of spine, stamp to title page, annotations to its verso, other stamps to rear pastedown. A solid copy. $350. * Only edition. This abridgement is valuable for its insights into the political and legal history of Ireland in the mid-eighteenth century. This was the era when Georgian Ireland was beginning to enjoy a period of prosperity and a degree of political autonomy. Four supplements were issued in 1756, 1758, 1760 and 1762. OCLC locates 7 copies in North America, 3 in law libraries (Harvard, Notre Dame, South Texas College of Law). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 4:11.