The Philosophy of Law: Being Notes of Lectures During Twenty-Three...
Broom, Herbert [1815-1882]. The Philosophy of Law: Being Notes of Lectures During Twenty-Three Years (1852-1875) in the Inner Temple Hall. Adopted for Student and the Public. San Francisco: Summer Whitney & Co., 1876. xi, 271 pp. Octavo (5" x 7"). Original maroon cloth with gilt stamped spine and boards. Worn and soiled with some fraying to spine ends. Ex-library with ink shelf location label to foot of spine. Bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason to front pastedown. Number stamp to verso title page, otherwise internally clean. A good copy. $95. * First American edition. Gleason [1869-1942] was a Catholic priest, historian and collector. "This little work is meant for perusal not only by law students, but by the public. It exhibits the elements of our existing law, vouched for by reference to recent cases and statutes, though resting on principles that were settled centuries ago. I submit it as the result of much thought devoted to the adapting of legal knowledge to the ordinary concerns of life.": Preface, v. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) I:244. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 901.
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