A Short View of Legal Bibliography, Containing Some Critical...
Bridgman, Richard Whalley [1762-1820]. A Short View of Legal Bibliography: Containing Some Critical Observations on the Authority of the Reporters and Other Law Writers; Collected from the Best Authorities, And Intended as a Companion to the Author's Reflections on the Study of the Law. To Which is Added, A Plan for Classifying a Public or Private Library. Buffalo, N.Y.: Dennis & Co., [1958?] facsimile of the London 1807 first edition. xviii, 429, [1] pp. Tan library buckram with red and black lettering pieces to spine. Moderate shelfwear and soiling with rubbing to spine. Internally clean. A very good copy. $45. * Arranged alphabetically by author and containing valuable critical and descriptive bibliographic observations, Bridgman's classic reference remains a valuable work. He intended this work to be a guide with the "double advantage of easing the labors of the rising generation, and of removing rubbish from the republic of letters. It is our duty to do the best we can for our posterity, and not reject the task under the illiberal idea that posterity can do nothing for us" (v). Like others he published, it was, notes the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "intended to provide an accessible synthesis of aspects of the law." Sutton, rev. Harris, "Bridgman, Richard Whalley," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (accessed online). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:42.
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