A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes. Volumes I-II. From the Third English Edition, Fourth American Edition, with Additional Notes, and References to American Decisions

[LAW]. John William Smith (1809-1845), Henry Singer Keating (1804-1888), James Shaw Willes (1814-1872), John Innes Clark Hare (1816-1905), Horace Binney Wallace (1817-1852). "A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes. Volumes I-II. From the Third English Edition, Fourth American Edition, with Additional Notes, and References to American Decisions." Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson and Co., Law Booksellers, No. 197 Chestnut Street. Printed by Kite and Walton, 1852. Fourth American edition. Two volumes. English language. Hardcover in paneled full calf with spines in five compartments with raised bands, red and black gilt-lettered titling labels in second and fourth compartments. Nonfiction legal text across two volumes and seventy-five cases with two prefaces, advertisement, list of cases, case index, other indices. 8vo. Bindings: 9 1/4 x 6 inches. Paper: 9 x 5 1/2 inches. 84 oz. Volume I: xxxii, 33-840 pp. Volume II: xvi, 17-628 pp. Boards ginger. Cracked along spine but attached. Boards with blindstamp signatures. Ownership stamp of Phillip B. Stewart on inside front boards. Minor book worming to a few leaves. Bottom edge of one volume's text block rounded. Contemporary ink manuscript ownership signature to second title. Minor dampstaining. Text clean. Good Plus. No ISBN. No ASIN. OCLC: 1547926016. "'Perhaps the best known English textbook after Blackstone.' The first edition of Smith's Leading Cases was published in 1837. The author lived to complete a second edition. The third and fourth editions, such as is offered here, were edited by the Right Hon. Sir James Shaw Willes, who died in 1872, and the Right Hon. Sir Henry Singer Keating who died in 1888. The fith and sixth editions were edited by the late Frederick Philip Maude and Thomas Edward Chitty; and the seventh, eighth and ninth by the Right Hon. Lord Collins who died in 1911, in conjunction with the late Robert George Arbuthnot, who died in 1890.".