A Digest of the Law of Evidence. From the third English edition

Stephen. James Fitzjames, [1829-1894]. May, John Wilder, [1819-1883]. A Digest of the Law of Evidence. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1877. From the third English edition. xxvii, 257 pp. Tan library buckram with gilt black lettering pieces to spine. Light shelfwear and soiling. Shelf location label to foot of spine. Card pocket to rear pastedown. Bookplate to front pastedown. Property stamps to front free endpaper, title page, and [v] pp, otherwise internally fine. A very good copy. $175. * From the Third English edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged by the author, with notes and American illustrations chiefly from American cases by John Wilder May. In 1873 Stephen finished a complete systematic code of the English law of evidence. "Although this masterly draft of Stephen failed to become a statute, it served him well three years later as a basis for his celebrated Digest of the Law of Evidence. This is the best treatise of a summary nature ever written on that diffuse and difficult subject." Marke 531. HLC II:655 (Not this edition).…