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Nov 12, 2020
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BRADFORD, John (1749-1830). A General Instructor: or the Office, Duty, and Authority of Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners, and Constables, in the State of Kentucky. Lexington, KY: John Bradford, 1800.
12mo (186 x 111). (Occasional spotting, pages toned.) Contemporary calf, red leather spine label (rebacked and repaired, minor wear at joints). Provenance: George Cleveland (1760-1867), early Bourbon County pioneer (early letterpress bookplate); William B. Branham, Bourbon County magistrate (ownership signatures to title, later inscription by descendant T.W. Hedges).
FIRST EDITION. Known as the "Caxton of Kentucky," Bradford was the first resident printer in Kentucky, printing the first newspaper and pamphlet published west of the Alleghenies with the first Kentucky Gazette in 1787, and Kentucky Almanac in 1788, respectively. He printed the first book in Kentucky in 1792. An early legal treatise printed in the western frontier with notable Kentucky provenance. Evans 37034; HRS Kentucky 1787-1810, 131; Jillson, Rare Kentucky Books, p.27.
Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, Kentucky