first edition Hardcover
1858 · Boston
by LOWELL, John, edited by
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1858. Hardcover. Near Fine. Tall octavo. 720pp. Contemporary legal calf with morocco spine labels gilt. Contemporary handwritten bookplate, faint stain on p. 105-106, spine slightly toned, else a nice, near fine copy. The entire June, 1857 issue (p. [61]-120) save for the final leaf, is the first printing of this important and detailed analysis of the opinions and a rigorous and severe critique of Justice Roger B. Taney and the Dred Scott Decision. In 1865, President Lincoln appointed John Lowell as United States district judge for Massachusetts. (Inventory #: 410611)