[Rarebooks] fs-Legal Humor [III]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on the legal humor
and related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our
web site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word
or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  [POPISH PLOT SATIRIZED AND ANALYZED].  Some Observations Upon
the Late Tryals of Sir George Wakeman, Corker and Marshal . . . By
Tom Tickle-foot the Taborer, late Clerk to Justice Clodpate [etc.].
Wing S4540.  Printed for A. Brewster [F. Smith], London, 1679.
Modern calf, some light browning, else quite a good copy. [66724
L69] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66724
                                                         $ 650.00

A sensationally-phrased but amazingly perceptive contemporary
analysis of the Popish Plot, written just after the acquittal of
George Wakeman and others had swung the balance against Oates,
supposedly written by a former clerk to an imaginary judge.

2.  [POUND, ROSCOE].  Morrison Foundation Lectures.  State Bar of
California, San Francisco, 1940.  Black cloth, the edges quite
faded, but clean and bright inside. [68520 L73]           $ 50.00

The ten Morrison Foundation lectures, the first of which was
delivered at San Francisco by Roscoe Pound in 1930, followed by
nine others during the 1930's, including those by James Grafton
Rogers and George Wharton Pepper, among others.

3.  [PRINT].  Dr. Syntax in a Court of Justice.  Published by R.
Ackermann, London, 1823.  Hand-colored, about 4 1/2" by 3 1/2",
matted. [55490]                                           $ 75.00

4.  ROEBUCK, Derek.  A Miscellany of Disputes.  Holo Books,
Oxford, 2000.  Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy. [71575]
                                                          $ 45.00

Represented as "the first anthology of stories about disputes
resolved without the aid of litigation", full of humor and wisdom,
and venturing as far afield as Ancient Greece, Rome, China, and
medieval England, with a touch of Chaucer and Shakespeare.

5.  ROGERS, R. Vashon.  The Law of the Road; or, Wrongs and
Rights of a Traveller.  Sumner Whitney and Company, San
Francisco, 1876.  Original russet cloth, quite worn, but sound.
[16112]                                                $ 75.00

6.  [ROGERS, R. Vashon].  The Wrongs and Rights of a Traveller.
By Boat - By Stage - By Rail.  Published by R. Carswell, Toronto,
1875.  Modern cloth, ex-library?; a clean copy. [60456]
                                                          $ 75.00

7.  SLOSS, Peter F.  Alice's Adventures in Jurisprudencia.
Borogove Press, Belvedere, 1982.  Original printed wraps,
illustrated; 87 pages. [63644 L64]                        $ 10.00

A must for any Lewis Carroll fan, and indeed anyone else who
wonders what it would be like if Humpty Dumpty were Chief Justice.

8.  [TRIAL].  Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M. before
the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense, and a Special
Jury.  Printed for Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row, London, 1825.
Modern 3/4 polished calf, rubbed, but still pretty. [55007 L13]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55007
                                                         $ 650.00

9.  ULMAN, Emory Washburn.  Young Lawyer U.N. Truth's First Case.
Cullinan Publishing, Brooklyn, 1922.  Blue cloth, worn, the front
hinge cracked; usable. [44480 L13]                        $ 65.00

10.  WILCOX, Henry S.  Foibles of the Bar.  Legal Literature
Company, Chicago, 1906.  Light blue cloth, quite spotted and worn;
usable. [56549 L39]                                       $ 50.00

Original edition of a work which followed Wilcox's 'Foibles of the
Bench' and was succeeded by the work immediately below, completing
his sympathetic, if barbed, tour of of the triumvirate of our legal
system.
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