A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, 14th ed 1883, 3 Vols.
The First Important Work on Evidence Published in America Greenleaf, Simon [1783-1853]. Crosswell, Simon Greenleaf, Editor. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. Fourteenth edition, Revised with Large Additions. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1883. 3 volumes. lxxxiv, 753; lxxxix, 683; xxix, 577 pp. Octavo (9" x 6"). Contemporary law calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands and red and black lettering pieces to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing, some dampspotting and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards and extremities, light toning to interiors, offsetting to margins of endleaves. A very good and well-preserved set in its original state. $650. * Fourteenth edition, edited by Simon Greenleaf Crosswell, the author's grandson. This edition represents the continued relevance and demand for this seminal work decades after the original author's death in 1853 and demonstrates the book's immense commercial success and its status as the prevailing, standard resource for legal professionals and students for nearly half a century. Originally intended to be a textbook, Greenleaf's treatise was published a volume at a time from 1842-1853. The first important American work on evidence, it freed the bar from its dependence on English sources. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) I:827.
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