Speeches, 1900, Inscribed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Inscribed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Lady Evelyn Charteris Vesey, Viscountess de Vesci, a Member of the Influential British Intellectual Circle Known as the Souls Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841-1935). Speeches. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). [vi], 86 pp. Original printed paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, other edges deckle. Moderate rubbing and dampstaining to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners, corners lightly bumped. Armorial bookplate of Lady Evelyn Charteris Vesey, Viscountess de Vesci, designed by Charles William Sherborn, to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in places, mostly to gutters. Presentation inscription from Holmes, partially overwritten by an annotation in Lady de Vesci's hand, to front free endpaper. Six-page offprint, Speech of Mr. Justice Holmes at a Dinner of the Harvard Law School Association of New York, On February 15, 1913, laid in; moderately toned and edgeworn, with two horizontal folds and short clean tears to several leaves along folds. Housed in a custom dark green quarter-morocco clamshell box over cloth. $1,500. * Fourth edition. An interesting association copy of Holmes's collected speeches, presented by the author to Lady Evelyn Charteris Vesey [1849-1939], Viscountess de Vesci, a prominent member of the influential British intellectual and social circle known as the Souls. The inscriptions on the front free endpaper read "from the author" in Holmes's hand and "Sent me by" in Lady de Vesci's hand, the latter partially overwriting the former. One of the most influential figures in American legal history, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was serving as a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts when this collection appeared. Appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1902, he would become one of the principal architects of modern American jurisprudence. His speeches, delivered on professional, commemorative and other occasions, offer a personal expression of the intellectual outlook, literary sensibility and professional ideals that informed his legal philosophy. The 1900 edition, published before his appointment to the United States Supreme Court, is particularly interesting as a record of his developing jurisprudential outlook and his reflections on the law and the.
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