The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1802-11-17
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RICHMOND.
NOVEMBER if7b. 1909,

sae THE Virginia Gazette of lai We'd
nav edition.of g The Rev;fFA Code.'' The
writer fays, that he has feen one Of the fhccts;
and that it By no msans Comes hb 7, t5c brepos
jas OF eourie, ne does not think hinieIf
obliged to take the copy for which ne fub-
fcribed.
We fhall let the gentleruan's honeit heat
az ta!e upon This fcore; for, if he will only
Crafty us with the knowledge of MS name,
ne ihatl have his copy for nothing. He does
not tell us what fault he fnds with this q, ct.
Hcmight have known, that Jingle lieet is
not always a fair fpecirlen Of printed book.
He proceeds to hint, that the type is too Eqai{
10 be pored over in dark court-houfe We
never knew that conrt-houles were more
likely to he dark than other places, IF the
gentleman will cali at the book ifore of 6.
eleaants, VIC can er him fee large collection
OF Engiiis4 law books, flot one of which is
fuberjo7, either as TO print, or paper, to the
ott2yo edition Of TIE Rcvifcd Code" and
{jpe Of illem are much inferior TO il in kotn
Feipe6fs.
The writer (ays, that he did believe that lie
should have had neat book, printed on a let.
ecT as large as the lah edition. of the Rcvjl;,i
@ode. no iutn thing was promifed; nor
could ne, in common tenfe, have tisle to cx
pea il. When i, is reflected that aln,of on.
thiFd part of TIE volume coniifs OF additional
matter; I"hen il is coniidercd that the bostorn
notes require 4 comfortable proportio.i O?
room; and that the inaer is to Be ENLARGED. as
we'll IS wrote entirely over again it cannot
DC Gippoied that all this could be comDrc-
hendec IN an oteavo, and az the fame time, In
the large letter of the folio edition We
Yroniied TO give the work in enc large octave
volume. But if we had been TO publiHs it on
the fame type with the former edition, il
you'd have required two volumes intead Of
one; attended with fuch an enormous encregtc
Of exPence in point Of paper and prefs- work,
that the volumes could not have been fold for
lels thar twelve, or fourteen dollars.
I his writer might have known, that
epon the publication of Mr.. Davis's
edition, il was j5}d to on-fUbfcribcrs, Eor tel,
dollars; that it Immediately role TO twelve
and hnaily 70 three guineas; and that, even
at this price, the book was nor TO be'had for UP
wards Of two years before 1he publication of
our pIoPo.ais. The octave edition COTS only
ak dollars TO iubIcribers. 1t contains the IT,
!s<fIaao5 Of fsven }aetseaiag films; beEdes 2
nH7'brr q 9f6er lars, which 5agbi Ii bdpe
Teen i4isrfsS IN tie jolio edit:an. The notes
annexed TO this impre1lon form another eff
Genital adyantsgs; and, as they were no,
promiled in the propofals, We have, as he
pirate IS, 0ecn, in this inftarce, BITTER
THAN OUR WORD. The gentlemen OF the
ia'Y were unanimous in affirming, that THEM
dsx TO Mr.. Day.s's edition was the rnoR
wEetchcd thing Of she fou wbich ,hcy had ever
teen. Ehc pfelcnt edition vii! he accom-
panied with a complete index down TO the
1reient yir1e. ! MS improvement will coz
Che editors yer, Comfortable Gm, a. il IS to
81 entirely wrote ont from the beginning
! ne gentleman VINO complies it, declares that
ne can derive no ai1Iaance Whategee from tho
p5etent bjundering index.
We ~ not think il worth Our while TO ssLe