[Parliamentary Act]. An Act to Permit Persons Professing the Jewish Religion, to be Naturalized by Parliament

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(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

[Parliamentary Act]. An Act to Permit Persons Professing the Jewish Religion, to be Naturalized by Parliament

Initial letters within richly historiated woodcut borders pp. (6). Unbound. Folio. Albert M. Hyamson, Bibliography of Pamphlets Relating to the Jew Bill of 1753 in: TJHSE, Vol. VI (1908-1910), pp. 178-88, no. 4.

London: n.p 1753

Est: $600 - $900

The first printing of the Parliamentary Act that granted naturalization rights to Jews in England. See J. Picciotto, Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History (1956), pp. 73-86.