The Influence of the Mosaic Code Upon Subsequent Legislation

Marsden, J[ohn] Benj[amin] The Influence of the Mosaic Code Upon Subsequent Legislation. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1862. viii, 303 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Crimson library cloth with gilt stamped title to spine, institutional gilt stamp to front cover. Light shelfwear, spine faded, boards slightly stained and soiled. Front hinge starting. Bookplate to front free endpaper, property stamps to title and several other pages. Interior otherwise clean. $300. * Only edition. "Materials for [this] work were chiefly furnished by the investigations of other writers, who, in pursuit of different objects, had already traveled over some portions of the same ground. (.) [To] trace its influence upon the principles of jurisprudence as a moral science, presented itself as a subject of interest. It was one, at least, that not unnaturally would claim the attention of a person engaged in the practice of the law" (preface). Not in Sweet & Maxwell. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) II:55.…