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Reports from the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into the.

1801rif. 847901801. London 1801. Folio 17" x 11". London 1801. Folio 17" x 11". The Beginning of Systematic State Records in the United Kingdom Great Britain. Parliament. Select Committee on the State of Public Records. Reports from the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into the State of the Public Records of the Kingdom &c. London: Ordered by The House of Lords to be Printed 13th March 1801. 667 pp. Illustrations. Many engraved folding plates. Folio 17" x 11"; 43 x 26.5 cm. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Moderate rubbing and wear to extremities. Light toning to interior occasional light foxing and faint offsetting from plates internally clean. A very good copy. $350. With the Second Report pagenated continal. The Select Committee on the State of Public Records was commissioned by the House of Commons in 1800 to assess the location condition and types of public records in the United Kingdom. Though public record keeping was an important tradition in Britain there had been no comprehensive parliamentary proceedings on the matter since the 1731 Cotton Library fire. Chaired by Charles Abbot a barrister politician and Fellow of the Royal Society and supported by a number of prominent clerks librarians and lawyers the committee began investigating in February and submitted its first report on July 4th 1800. A second report was issued soon after. The committee found that the kingdom's public records covered a significant period of time with some dating to the Domesday Book but that there were serious issues with storage indexing and cataloguing that made them difficult to access and often in danger of succumbing to fire or dampness. It recommended the creation and construction of specialized public record offices the standardization of record keeping and administrative practices and the compilation and printing of indexes and calendars to guide researchers. Both reports were republished at the request of the House of Lords in March 1801. The committee's work led to the establishment of the Record Commissions which would operate from 1800-1837 and produce a number of important publications. These in turn gave way to the Public Record Office now the National Archives of the UK. unknown

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ANNO REGNI ANNAE REGINAE MAGNA BRITANNIAE FRANCIAE & HIBERNIAE DUODECIMO Thirty-Nine Acts of Parliament Passed in the Twelfth Year of Queen Anne's Reign

1713rif. 1394685London: Printed by John Baskett 1713-1717. First Editions. Hardcover. Folio 61-174 2179-191 6 203-206 2 211-218 2 223-270 2 275-357 3 361-362 2 367-382 2 387-422 4. In Good minus condition. Bound in full contemporary calf with banded spine and tooling to boards. Boards show moderate wear to edges moderate plus wear and bumping to corners and several gouges to the front board. Cracking to leather along joint of front board. A clear lacquer appears to have been applied to the boards. Text block has light age toning to edges. Ex-Library institutional plate appears on front paste down. Ex libris of former owner appears on front pastedown. Several ink "doodles" in an 18th-century hand appear on the front paste down and front free end page. Square-inch tear to fore-edge of front free end page. Pages tightly trimmed by binder impacting some of the printed marginal annotations. BB Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. Appears to contain two collections of public statutes passed in 1713 and 1714 but printed between 1713 and 1717 each with a closing contents page. The first collection contains Acts II - XVIII of 18 acts and the second contains Acts II - XXIII of 23 acts. The acts cover a range of topics including duties tariffs and taxes; the paying and management of military personnel and militias; and the management of churches. The most significant of the acts however is Act 15 of the second set of acts entitled "An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea". This formally established the Commissioners of the Longitude and the reward of £20000 for "the first Author or Authors Discoverer or Discoverers of any such method ." that to the satisfaction of the committee accurately determined a ship's longitude at sea accurate to within 20 geographical miles. This reward would not be claimed until 1765 when clockmaker John Harrison developed his "time-keeper" or marine chronometer. 1394685. Special Collections - Upstairs. Printed by John Baskett hardcover

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