The Monthly Law Reporter. Vol. XX. New Series. Vol. X, May, 1857 - April, 1858

Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1857 and 1858.

Price: $1,250.00

Hardcover. Tall octavo. 720pp. Contemporary legal calf with morocco spine labels gilt. Contemporary handwritten bookplate, faint stain on p. 105-106, spine slightly toned, else a nice, near fine copy. The entire June, 1857 issue (p. [61]-120) save for the final leaf, is the first printing of this important and detailed analysis of the opinions and a rigorous and severe critique of Justice Roger B. Taney and the Dred Scott Decision. In 1865, President Lincoln appointed John Lowell as United States district judge for Massachusetts.

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Item #410611 The Monthly Law Reporter. Vol. XX. New Series. Vol. X, May, 1857 - April, 1858. John LOWELL.