Introduction to The Science of Government, and Compend of Constitutional and Statutory Law, A General View of the ..... by Young, A. W - 1835

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E-309. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Spencer & Lewis, Warsaw, New York, 1835. 304 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in polished calf leather with title label present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookstore stamp present to the title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Andrew W. Young, who published his History of Chautauqua County in 1875, was born in Carlisle NY in March 1802. He taught school as a young man, then clerked in a store. In May 1830 he began publishing the Warsaw Sentinel. In January 1832 he bought the Republican Advocate of Batavia and merged the two newspapers. In April 1835 he sold the combined newspaper to D. D. Waite, so that when the American Citizen was begun under the auspices of the Genesee County Anti-Slavery Society, Young was able to accept their offer of the editorship. Christoper Densmore’s list of Underground Railroad (UGRR) “agents” in Western… Read More

Warsaw [New York]:: Spencer & Lewis,, 1835.. contemporary mottled sheep.. Historical Society stamp on front free endpaper (with de-accession annotation); three-digit numberals on two preliminary leaves; old private ownership annotation in ink on blank leaf; some scattered light foxing with some use, wear, and small areas of insect damage to boards. Still: tight and sound.. 8vo,.