Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations From the...
The Last Authorial Edition of Story on Bailments Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations From the Civil and the Foreign Law. Revised, Corrected and Enlarged. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown/London: A. Maxwell & Son, 1843. xliv, 636 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-3/4"; 23.5 x 14.6 cm). Contemporary sheep, blind fillets to boards, raised bands and lettering piece, and fragment of owner label to spine. Light rubbing to boards, front board partially detached, moderate rubbing to extremities, heavier rubbing to spine, corners bumped and worn, offsetting to margins of endleaves, very light toning to interior. A good copy. $450. * Third edition, the last by Story. Marvin: "Whatever was to be found in the English and American decisions, whatever Roman and Continental jurisprudence afforded on illustration of the law of bailments, Joseph Story collected and combined with surprising industry, and wonderful learning...Story's Bailments affords one of the best examples, in modern times, of the illustration which our laws are susceptible of, by the aid of foreign jurisprudence." Marvin, Legal Bibliography 668-669. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2454.
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