A Law Dictionary and Glossary, Primarily for the Use of Students...
A Forgotten Rival to Black's: The Scarce 1893 First and Only Edition of Kinney's Landmark Law Dictionary Kinney, J. Kendrick. A Law Dictionary and Glossary: Primarily for the Use of Students but Adapted Also to the Use of the Profession at Large. Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1893. iv, 706 pp. Thumb-tabbed. Octavo (9" x 6"; 22.9 x 15.2 cm). Original publisher's buckram, blind frames to boards, raised bands and gilt lettering pieces to spine. Moderate to heavy rubbing, corners bumped, some toning to interior. A good copy. $500. * First and only edition. In his preface, Harvard Law graduate and Civil War veteran Kinney acknowledges his significant indebtedness to Alexander Burrill's Law Dictionary and Glossary (1859-1860). Kinney emphasizes a concise but comprehensive philological approach, filtering archaic terminology from various languages into precise modern legal application. Though highly praised by contemporary reviews-with The Green Bag declaring it "as good as any we have seen"-this ambitious work was ultimately eclipsed by the rapid dominance of Black's Law Dictionary (1891), making this single edition a scarce survivor of late-nineteenth-century American legal lexicography (1871). Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 1202.
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