Laws Of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, From The Fourteenth Day of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred. Vol. IV - includes ephemera: 1822 property tax bill signed by Assessor George Morrison

Philadelphia, PA: John Bioren, 1810. Hardcover. Fair-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, original 1810 publication in full leather binding. Exterior is in poor condition with leather darkened and brittle, both front and rear boards are barely hanging on by a single section of binder string. Spine is blackened and extremely brittle. Boards also show staining on both front and rear. The internal binding is in better shape with all text pages secure. Paper is darkened due to age and foxing and spotting is present throughout the worst being the end pages and pastedowns though some pages are also quite dark. First section of pages also contains a dark stain in the gutter. Only handwriting found in book is on the title page by the original owners name is penned in the upper left corner which appears to read "Jno Mellon". This page also has a small tear with a chip missing on the right outside edge. Rear pages has some dampstains present in the lower inside corner. An interesting piece of ephemera was found securely tucked between the pages. It is in original property tax statement from 1822 and measures approximately 7.5 inches long by 2.5 inches high. This small document reads as follows: "To Mr. Thomas Brown Esq. - SIR.... Your property is valued at $510. The rate per cent is 2 1/2 Mils on the Dollar. Your Tax for the present year is 1 Dollars 27 Cents. The Court of Appeal will be held at the house of Thomas M. Henry on the 26th day of March 1822. (Signed) Geo. Morrison, Assessor.". This slip of paper has been placed in an archival sleeve and will be included with the book. Note: this is the original publication from the 1800s and not a modern reprint. This is volume 4 only as each volume was published independent of each other and over a range of multiple years. Full title reads as Laws Of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, From The Fourteenth Day of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred. Republished Under the Authority of the Legislature, with Notes and References. Vol. IV".