A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. 16th ed. 3 Vols. Boston, 1899.
Final Edition Revised, Enlarged and Annotated Greenleaf, Simon [1783-1853]. [Wigmore, John Henry]. [Edward Avery Harriman, Editors]. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Sixteenth edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899. 3 volumes. Octavo (6" x 9"). Publisher's tan buckram with red and black gilt lettering pieces. Light wear, owner's signature on front pastedown of the first volume, "Elias B. Hartle/ Hagerstown, Md." stamps foot of spines and front free endpapers, internally clean. A very good set. $750. * Sixteenth (and final) edition, revised, enlarged and annotated and historically significant because it represents the transition from Greenleaf's seminal work, which was the standard for American evidence law for half a century, to the new era of evidence scholarship dominated by its editor, John Henry Wigmore. Wigmore, who would become one of the most influential legal scholars in American history, edited the first volume of this edition just before publishing his own monumental work, A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (which began publication in 1904). Edward Avery Harriman edited volumes 2 and 3 of the edition, further contributing to its status as a thoroughly revised and updated version of Greenleaf's work at the turn of the century. The 1899 edition marks a pivotal moment in the history of American legal literature on evidence, where the established authority passed the torch to the scholar who would define the field for the next generation. The former owner of this set, Elias B. Hartle, graduated from law school in 1897 and was a prominent attorney in Hagerstown, MD and established the firm of Hartle & Wolfinger. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) I:827. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 526.
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