THE DUTY AND AUTHORITY OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE
Nashville, Tennessee: Printed and sold by Thomas G. Bradford, 1810. Original leather binding. 372 pp plus 2 page appendix, and 6 page index. Bookplate of owner William W. Goodman en verso of front cover. 7" H x 4 1/4" W. Spine detached. Last couple of index pages not fully attached. Advertising pages from other editions absent. Overall general wear and losses to leather binding.
A native of North Carolina, Haywood (1762-1826) moved to Tennessee in 1807 where he enhanced his already solid reputation as a jurist and historian, publishing a string of legal compilations and the earliest important histories of his adopted state; he served on the Tennessee Supreme Court for the last 12 years of his life. A rare book, rather amateurishly printed and bound, it evokes the state of frontier life. American Imprints 20311. Allen Tennessee Imprints 162. Allen More Tennessee Rarities 340.
SCARCE early Tennesse imprint. Not Ex-Lib. Item #100223
Price: $1,450.00