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Ye Olden Blue Laws
GUSTAVUS MYERS
Other works by GUSTAVUS MYERSPublication: The Century Co, 1921, New York
First edition. 8vo. Gray cloth titles and decoration stamped in blue on the front cover and spine, vi [4], 274 pp., frontispiece [Arresting a woman charged with witchcraft], 8 full-page plates [including frontispiece], references. A history of blue laws of other days to include such subjects as the branks, the pillory, the scarlet letter, the drunkard's cloak, the ducking stool, laying by the heels in the Bilboes, the stocks, and much, much more. Former owner's small library stamp on front fly leaf, else a fine, bright copy in dust jacket with small chips to the spine ends and small chips, nicks, and closed tears to the extremities.
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