[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Collection of the Speeches of Future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1891

[Charles Agvent]

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr. SPEECHES. Boston: Little, Brown, and 
Company, 1891. First Edition. Original gilt-lettered white cloth. We 
have handled several copies of this title over the years and all have 
been bound in printed boards. This is the first time we have seen this 
binding which is fancier and likely produced in a much smaller quantity. 
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." Near Fine 
example of a scarce title. (#018494)        $850

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