Unique Collection of Distinguished English Jurists
[English Judges and Lawyers]. English Judges and Lawyers. [ New York : The Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribner's Sons, n.d]. [80 leaves]. Folio (10" x 15"). Navy morocco, raised bands, gilt-ruled boards and compartments, gilt edges. Autograph letters and documents, engraved and lithographed portrait illustrations clipped from books and periodicals laid in. Numerous loose items inserted between leaves. Quite handsome. $5,000.
 * Fascinating one-of-a-kind finely bound volume of portrait illustrations and documents written or signed by important English legal figures of the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries. A partial survey of contents includes court documents signed by Coke, Wyndham, Yelverton, Finch, William Montagu and Cowper and autograph letters by Lord Cottenham, Patterson, Bethell, Cranworth, Gurney, Lyndhurst , Wilde, Brougham, Salisbury , Chelmsford , and Pollock.
      A paper-print photograph of Pollock and a letter from Lord Palmerston are also included. The compiler arranged the materials chronologically; portraits and relevant autograph items are mounted on facing leaves. (The presence of several loose items and blank leaves at rear suggests that the compiler was unable to complete the project). A complete listing of the contents is available upon request. Law Books 33835