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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Title(s):
An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.
Additional Title(s):
Public General Acts. 1770. 10 Geo.III.c.19
Published/Created:
London : Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1770.
Physical Description:
[2], 347-350 p. ; 31 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SK505 .G74 1707+
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo. At the Parliament begun ... the tenth day of May, anno Domini 1768, ... And from thence continued by several prorogations to the ninth day of January, 1770; being the third session of the thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain.
Imprint from general titlepage.
At head of drop-head title: Anno decimo Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XIX.
Last word of first line of text: "late"; first word of line below initial: "Majesty,"; last word of last full line of text: "Courts."
Signed on first leaf of text: 4S; press fig. 2 on p. 347
Text in black letter.
English short title catalogue, N57119
BAC: British Art Center has two copies, nos. [9] and [10] of 16 parliamentary acts on game laws, bound together. In a later binding. Both copies lack the general title page. No. [9] also lacks p. 349-350. No. [10] has a variant setting of type; with contemporary annotations in pen and ink.
Subject Terms:
Game and game-birds -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Game laws -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Game protection -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Contributors:
Eyre, Charles, printer.
Strahan, William, 1715–1785, printer.
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