Some Old Scots Judges: Anecdotes and Impressions.
Gray, W. Forbes. Some Old Scots Judges: Anecdotes and Impressions. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1915. xii, 317 pp. Frontispiece. Thirteen plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt stamped spine and cover. Moderate shelfwear and soiling. Spine lettering lightly faded, cover gilt stamping bright. Fore-edge and bottom edge deckled. Offsetting to free endpapers. Bookplate of "George W. Lawrence" to front pastedown. Internally clean. A very good copy. $45. * Gathering the eccentric personalities, landmark rulings, and sharp wits of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scottish bench, this biographical survey captures the distinct culture of the historical Court of Session. Gray constructs vivid, anecdotal profiles of twelve iconic jurists, including Lord Kames, Lord Monboddo, and the notorious "hanging judge" Lord Braxfield, balancing their profound contributions to Scottish jurisprudence against their notorious private lives and salon conversations during the peak of the Scottish Enlightenment. The text and its striking portrait plates provide an invaluable source of cultural history, capturing a bygone era when the Scottish judiciary operated as the intellectual and social epicenter of Edinburgh society.
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