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Birmingham: The Legal Classics Library, 1984. First edition thus. Leather_bound. Very Good. Full leather binding with raised banded spine, gilt edges and ornamentation. Volumes 3 and 4 bound together in one. A very good copy with previous owner's book plate to front pastedown. Sewn in ribbon. Text clean and unmarked, binding and hinges solid. Some scuffing and wear to the gilt on the textblock edges. 1036 pp., volumes 3 and 4 only.

Birmingham: Legal Classics Library, 1984. hardcover. near fine. Edited by James L. High. Four volumes in two. Tall, very thick 8vo, gilt-decorated maroon leather, a.e.g. Birmingham: The Legal Classics Library, (1984). A near fine pair, with first volume spine just slightly concave..<br/><br/> Facsimile of the Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1876 edition<br/><br/>

1876. High, James, Editor.. High, James, Editor. The Great Courtroom Speeches of Lord Erskine Erskine, Thomas Henry, Lord [1750-1823]. [High, James, Editor]. Speeches of Lord Erskine, While at the Bar. Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1876. Four volumes. Octavo (9" x 5-1/4"). Original cloth, black-stamped rules and beveled edges to boards, gilt title and black-stamped fillets to spines. Moderate wear to extremities, front hinges of Volumes I-III cracked, light toning to interiors, a few cracks to text blocks, contemporary owner signature (I.J. Seafield) to front endleaves. $150. * Later edition. Containing of some of the most brilliant forensic orations in English, this collection was later reprinted by the Legal Classics Library. Erskine was "probably the greatest advocate who ever practiced at the English bar," who "at once made his way by his eloquence.": Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 429.