June, 1836. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden by adjournment at Newport, within and for said State, on the Third Monday in June, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six, and of Independence the Sixtieth.
[Providence]: [Printed by William Simons, Jr.], 1836. 112 pp. 8vo. Stitched self wrappers. A very good, uncut [unopened] and untrimmed copy, signed on front and rear wrappers, edges worn, light dampstain on lower fore-margin, contents lightly soiled. Item #43732
Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry," on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen (1785-1867?), son of Jabez Bowen Jr, was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons, Jr., was appointed state printer during the May, 1836 session of the General Assembly. Noted on the front cover: "Town Clerk Glocester." Rare. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC locates only one copy of this document, at the American Antiquarian Society, but without any notation of a signature (OCLC: 83805212).
Price: $750.00