Thomas Ruffin Esquire (1 results)

Leather Bound. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Octavos. vi, 526, [1]; iv, 671; [4]-635; vii, 437 pages. Each volume indexed. Hardcovers bound in full leather. The bindings are worn and show heavy scuffing and abrasions. Hinges are splitting on Volumes I & II and are heavily rubbed on Volume II. There are later paper labels on the spines, numbered Vol. 8 (on Vol I) through Vol. 11 (Vol. IV). The text blocks are secure. Volume III lacks the Title page and the Names of Cases leaf at the front, although they appear to have never been bound in. Heavy foxing to the text throughout. Volume I has three lines of wear (grooves) on the top edge of the text block. Volume I has the signatures of Charles G. Spaight and W. C. Bowen. (Spaight graduated UNC in 1820, son of NC Gov. Richard Dobbs Spaight. Charles died in 1831 before taking his seat in the NC House of Commons). Volume II contains the same two signature and a pencil signature of "Edward Conigland" (Conigland, 1819-1877, was a lawyer, teacher, and writer who was born in Ireland but who moved to North Carolina in 1844. He represented Halifax County at the 1865 NC Constitutional Convention, and he served as defense council to Governor William Holden at his Impeachment trial in 1871). Volume III contains a signature of "W. W. Peebles, Jackson, N.C." Peebles was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly (delegate from Northampton County) in the session of 1860-61 when North Carolina voted to secede from the Union. Volume IV has the signatures of W. W. Peebles (dated 1866) and E. Wilkins (with an ink stamp of Edmund Wilkins).