HOLMES JR., Oliver Wendall.
The Common Law.
Boston: Little Brown and Company , 1881.
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FIRST EDITION OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES’ COMMON LAW, AMONG THE GREATEST OF AMERICAN LEGAL WORKS
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with the spine gilt quite fresh and bright. With the University Press: John Wilson and Son on the copyright page. A very bright copy.
"To the legal historian, Justice Holmes was to be the leading prophet of the new era. Holmes was part of the generation that had sat at the feet of Darwin and Spencer When Holmes asserted in his Common Law that ‘the law finds its philosophy (in) the nature of human needs,’ he was sounding the clarion of 20th-century jurisprudence If the 19th century was one of Legal Darwinism, the 20th was, ultimately, to be that of Mr. Justice Holmes" (The Law in America, 190-91).
The Common Law.
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