Recently Acquired Material in the Law from The Lawbook Exchange
The Lawbook Exchange has published a catalogue of Recently Acquired Rare Books and Manuscripts in Law and Related Fields, America, Great Britain and Europe 1846-2020. Or, using the short title, Catalogue 103. It is filled with titles relating to the law, law books for practitioners, important cases, personal effects of notable jurists and lawyers, and a great number of salacious case histories, usually involving murders and subsequent hangings. A couple of centuries ago justice was swift, unapologetic, and irreversible. Entertainment through gruesome morality tales was popular with the lite...