[CLEVELAND] [SAMMELBAND] Charters of the Village of Cleveland, and the City of Cleveland, with their Several Amendments: to Which are Added the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Cleveland [WITH three other volumes]

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Octavo, 4 volumes, bound together. 175pp.; 36pp.; 21pp.; 95pp. Full titles and imprints as follows: Charters of the Village of Cleveland, and the City of Cleveland, with their Several Amendments: to Which are Added the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Cleveland -- An act to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages / passed by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, May 3, 1852. [Cleveland] : Gray & Wood, 1852 -- An act to amend An act to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages / passed by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, May 3, 1852. Cleveland, Steam press of J.W. Gray & Spear, Plain Dealer Office, 1853 -- Laws and ordinances of a general and local nature, for the government of the city of Cleveland. [Cleveland] : W.W. & E. Bruce, city printers, 1854. A typical mid-19th century midwestern volume of job printing, bound in green rough-grain cloth with red calf spine. Much-faded contemporary owner's name on the front free endpaper. Spine ends worn, and much of the backstrip is dry. Very mild scattered foxing, and part of the page block has been over-trimmed, with most marginal side-notes having some loss (these are only present in the second volume). The volume is just a bit unevenly trimmed, with the text block appearing at a slightly canted angle, more dramatically in a few places. Though the over-trimmed side-notes are technically a defect, the volume altogether is a great example of ordinary mid-19th century American printing and bookbinding. Naturally rather legalistic in form, but the sweeping range of ordinances gives a vivid picture of the not-so-sleepy town on the Cuyahoga. The harbor and the activity near the mouth of the river is highly regulated, and there were enough scalawags and ne'er-do-wells in Cleveland to necessitate ordinances around "nuisance," animal racing, gaming houses, and other vices. Not in Thomson. A significant volume of Cleveland history, in an unrestored local binding. Other than a Goodpeed offering in the late 1960s, the last copy we could trace in commerce was offered by Ernest Wessen in the late 1940s. OCLC lists a number of local holdings, and not much else. Rare. N° de ref. del artículo 9285

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