Author: Story, Joseph
Title: Sketch of the Life of Samuel Dexter . . . As Delivered to the Grand Jurors of the District of Massachusetts, and to the Members of the Suffolk Bar, At the opening of the Court in Boston, Published at Their Joint Request [etc.]. Cohen 1975
Description: Boston Printed by John Eliot 1816. Original ?self-wraps, disbound, quite browned, last leaf repaired (text legible), now preserved in a modern 3/4 calf case; uncommon, four copies in OCLC. ¶ Story's eulogy of the Boston lawyer whom he characterized in his 'Autobiography' as "at the head of the Massachusetts Bar, and truly princeps inter pares" and whom Story later chose, in his Dane lecture, as a role model for students in the law school

Keywords: biography