MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aJN6515 1771
051 $aJN6515 1771 Copy 2$cLC Copy 2 from the Russian Imperial Collection. In characteristic Catherine II binding of red morocco stamped in gilt with Catherine's double-headed eagle and botanical borders on front and back; raised bands and green leather spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Has printed shelf label with ms. shelf locations: Pavlovskīĭ Dvoret︠s︡. Biblīoteka [Paul's Palace library], [case] 9, [shelf] 8, [book] 3. Purchased by the Law Library of Congress; has accession number 5307R LL dated Jan. 4, 1955.
110 1 $aRussia.$bSovereign (1762-1796 : Catherine II)
240 10 $aNakaz Kommissii o sochinenii proekta novogo ulozhenii︠a︡.$lFrench
245 10 $aInstruction de Sa Majesté impériale Catherine II. pour la commission chargée de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
260 $aA Amsterdam,$bChez Marc Michel Rey,$cMDCCLXXI [1771].
300 $a[6], 229, [3] p. (last leaf blank), 1 leaf of plates$bport. (etching)$c20 cm.
500 $aLargely taken from Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois" and Beccaria's "Dei delitti e delle pene." cf. Bilʹbasov, Katharina II, Kaiserin von Russland, im Witheile der Weltliteratur, v. 1, p. 80-83, 125-126.
500 $aReprinted from a St. Petersburg edition (probably the offical one) of 1769. Not mentioned in Bilʹbasov. Lacks the "médaillon représentant Sa Majesté l'impératrice Catherine II., dessiné & gravé d'aprés un médaillon en plâtre ..." cf. Avertissement, on verso of 3rd prelim. leaf.
500 $aHas etched/engraved frontispiece portrait of Catherine II; signed: C. Boily, del.et fecit. Etched title vignette dated 1762.
561 $aLC Copy 1 trimmed to 17 cm.; in doublure binding with botanical tooling in corners and on spine, gilt borders front and back. Has red ink stamp on title page: Cabinet de Mr. de St. Albin. Has Library of Congress Yudin book labels. Has LC accession no. 128209 dated 1908: not the Yudin accession number. Shelved with the Yudin Collection.$5DLC
650 0 $aLaw$zRussia$vSources.
650 0 $aLaw$xCodification$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aBoily, Charles-Ange,$d1738 or 1739-1813,$eetcher.
700 1 $aCatherine$bII,$cEmpress of Russia,$d1729-1796,$eformer owner.
710 2 $aYudin Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
710 2 $aRussian Imperial Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC