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Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Title: The Common Law [a prize binding presented by The Honorable Society of Clements Inn to Arthur Wansbrough Jones, who placed first in first class at the examination held in January, 1889; with the seal of the Inn, in gilt, on the front board]
Description: London Macmillan and Co. 1881. Original crimson morocco, the spine richly gilt, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a very little wear, else especially attractive; a luscious copy. ¶ The uncommon first English edition of Holmes' tour de force, published the same year as the first American edition, and described by Professor Howe as "an originating venture", and Holmes as "the first to attempt a full-scale study of the common law"
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Title: The Common Law [a prize binding presented by The Honorable Society of Clements Inn to Arthur Wansbrough Jones, who placed first in first class at the examination held in January, 1889; with the seal of the Inn, in gilt, on the front board]
Description: London Macmillan and Co. 1881. Original crimson morocco, the spine richly gilt, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a very little wear, else especially attractive; a luscious copy. ¶ The uncommon first English edition of Holmes' tour de force, published the same year as the first American edition, and described by Professor Howe as "an originating venture", and Holmes as "the first to attempt a full-scale study of the common law"
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Price: US$ 1500.00 Seller: Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.
- Book number: 80428
- Book number: 80428