Item #55356 Memoirs of the Rhode-Island Bar. Wilkins Updike.
Memoirs of the Rhode-Island Bar

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Memoirs of the Rhode-Island Bar

Boston: Thomas H. Webb & Co., 1842. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [1], 14-311, [1]; original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; top of spine and back board chipped, lightly worn at the edges, else very good. This copy with a presentation from the author to the Supreme Court Justice "Hon. Judge [Nathan] Clifford with the respects of the author." A detailed account of the development of the legal profession in Rhode Island, with biographies of 15 Rhode Island attorneys general from 1721-1825: Henry Bull, James Honeyman, Daniel Updike, Augustus Johnson, Oliver Arnold, Henry Marchant, William Channing, Henry Goodwin, Rouse J. Helme, John Cole, Archibald Campbell, Jacob Campbell, James M. Varnum, Mathew Robinson, and Robert Lightfoot. American Imprints 4948; Bartlett, p. 262: Cohen 8524; Sabin 98030. Item #55356

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