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Memoir of Theophilius Parsons [with] Autograph Letter, Signed [And]...

Parsons, Theophilius

With Two Autograph Items and a Portrait Parsons, Theophilus [1797-1882]. Memoir of Theophilus Parsons, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries. By His Son, Theophilus Parsons. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1859. viii, 476, [11] pp. With an 11 pp. published catalogue at rear of text. Portrait frontispiece with tissue overlay. Octavo (7-3/4" x 5"). Original textured cloth with blind-stamped frames and ornaments, gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to boards, somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities, tiny tear to head of spine, moderate rubbing to interior. [With] [Laid-in Folder Containing an Undated Autograph Letter, Signed, a Clipped Signature, Affixed to Folder, and Steel-Plate Portrait of Parsons]. Light soiling and edgewear, a few minor tears along fold lines of letter. Together 4 items. $150. * Only edition. One of the great New England jurists of the nineteenth century, Parsons [1750-1813] played a major role in the Americanization of the common law. The letter is addressed James Deshon. It concerns a legal case involving cargo lost at sea. According to its caption, the portrait, dated 1818, was removed from an issue of The Analectic Magazine. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2070.

Price: $150.00

Book number 74781