[Rarebooks] FS: FIRST PUBLISHED REPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

[Charles Agvent]

DALLAS, A[lexander] J[ames] REPORTS OF CASES RULED AND ADJUDGED IN THE 
COURTS OF PENNSYLVANIA, BEFORE AND SINCE THE REVOLUTION
Philadelphia First Edition. Four octavo volumes (5-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound 
in much later legal tan buckram with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco 
spine labels; x, 492, i-26; [2], iv, 480, xix; [viii], 519, [1], xiii; 
[vi], 472, xxxiv, [xiv] pages. Complete with half title in the first 
volume which is the 1806 Second Edition; the remaining volumes are First 
Editions dated 1798, 1799, and 1807 respectively. Evans 33598, 35374, 
22445; Shaw & Shoemaker 12384. Of great importance as these volumes 
contain the FIRST PUBLISHED REPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, 
covering the cases which appeared before the Court from its inception in 
1790 through 1800. Ownership signature of William T. Dwight on the title 
pages of the first and third volumes. Dwight was the sixth son of Dr. 
Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College 1795-1822, and a 
great-grandson of Jonathan Edwards. He practiced law in Philadelphia for 
about ten years after graduating from Yale in 1813 before pursuing a 
career in the Ministry. Several pages bear his ink notes. Three other 
unknown signatures on the other title pages. Several ink and blindstamps 
of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Light browning and foxing. 
Very Good and scarce.    $2500.00
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