[Rarebooks] LEGAL HISTORY: PRESIDENT TAFT'S COPY

[Norman Kane]

We  can offer President (& Chief Justice) Taft's copy of the following 
authoritative work by Sir William R. Anson, whose work is described by the 
DNB as having "combined real learning with wide knowledge of affairs."
ANSON, SIR WILLIAM R.   THE LAW AND CUSTOM OF THE CONSTITUTION. In three 
volumes.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, &c,  1909/07/08 (4th/3rd/3rd editions.)  Original 
cloth stamped in gold and blind, a few pages carelessly opened, otherwise 
there is only slight wear; a well-preserved set.  Volume I has the 
attractive bookplate executed by Frederick Spenceley in 1909 (while Taft 
was in the White House.)  with the President's name beneath an image of a 
porticoed mansion; other elements in the bookplate are the Seal of the 
U.S., books including one (a Bible?) in Hebrew, wheat (?), &c.  (Taft's 
first love was the law; before becoming President he was was Solicitor 
General of the U.S., a federal judge and Dean of the Law School at the 
University of Cincinnati; in later years he was appointed Chief Justice of 
the U.S., a position that he found much more congenial than the 
Presidency.)  $350.00
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