Speeches of Lord Erskine, While at the Bar, 4 vols., Chicago, 1876.
The Great Courtroom Speeches of Lord Erskine Erskine, Thomas Henry, Lord [1750-1823]. [High, James, Editor]. Speeches of Lord Erskine, While at the Bar. Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1876. Four volumes. Octavo (9" x 5-1/4"). Original cloth, black-stamped rules and beveled edges to boards, gilt title and black-stamped fillets to spines. Moderate wear to extremities, front hinges of Volumes I-III cracked, light toning to interiors, a few cracks to text blocks, contemporary owner signature (I.J. Seafield) to front endleaves. $150. * Later edition. Containing of some of the most brilliant forensic orations in English, this collection was later reprinted by the Legal Classics Library. Erskine was "probably the greatest advocate who ever practiced at the English bar," who "at once made his way by his eloquence.": Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 429.
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