An abridgment of the publick laws of Virginia, in force and use, June 10, 1720
Subtitle: to which is added for the ease of the justices and military officers, &c. precedents of all matters to be issued by them, peculiar to those laws, and varying from the precedents in England
Contributors: Beverley, William, 1696-1756, supposed ed; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for F. Fayram and J. Clarke ..., and T. Saunders ...
Published: 1728
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Law; Forms (Law)
Notes: "It will probably never be known positively to whom we are indebted for this 'Abridgement [sic] of the publick laws of Virginia'. Tradition attributes it to Robert Beverley, the historian, while in manuscript on the title pages of the 1722 edition in the library of E.D. Church and the 1728 edition in the Library of Congress appear the words, in the former, 'by William Beverley', in the latter, 'by Colo William Beverley' ..." Cf. Virginia State Library. Department of Bibliography. A trial bibliography of colonial Virginia, 1908-1910.

Signatures: A⁴ B-N⁸ O⁴.

Includes index.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, entry 1870

English short title catalogue, entryT164860

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, with his initial by signature I. With the attribution in Jefferson's hand "by Colo[nel] William Beverley." With the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplate.