[Rarebooks] FS: Speeches of the Great Dissenter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

[Charles Agvent]

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr. SPEECHES. Boston: Little, Brown, and 
Company, 1891. First Edition. Original printed boards. A scarce 
collection of eleven speeches prefaced by the comment: "These chance 
utterances of faith and doubt are printed for a few friends who will 
care to keep them." Holmes served as chief justice of the Massachusetts 
Supreme Court from 1899 until 1902 when he was appointed to the United 
States Supreme Court by President Theodore Roosevelt, a position he held 
until his retirement in 1932. Holmes became famous for his liberal 
interpretations of the United States Constitution and was known as the 
"Great Dissenter" because of his disagreement with the views of his 
colleagues on the Court. His lectures on common law at the Lowell 
Institute in Boston, collected as THE COMMON LAW (1881), are considered 
a classic of legal writing. Speeches in this book include "Harvard 
College in the War" and "The Use of Law Schools." This copy with the 
bookplate of John Wesley Churchill on the front pastedown and his 
presumed pencil name on the front endpaper. Also on the front pastedown 
is a small bookplate presenting this book to the Churchill Memorial 
Room. Neat repairs to the front hinge and spine. Upper half of front 
cover darkened. Very Good or better copy of a scarce title. (#013587)    
     $500.00

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