The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States

New York; London; Cambridge: Macmillan; Collier-Macmillan; Cambridge University Press, 1971-1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, complete. NOTE BENE: Price includes USPS Media Mail postage within the United States; no additional shipping charges unless other arrangements are made. Ten Volumes - all published to date. Thick 8vo. xxv, 864, [2]; xiv, 687, [3]; xxi, 1009; xvii, 1041, [3]; xix, 1540, [1]; xxiii, 836; xviii, 202; xix, 426; xiv, 1041, [1]; xvii, 733 pp. 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches. Each volume separately illustrated, with select bibliographies, tables, and indexes; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped cloth, top edges gilt (except Vol. XII), 9 volumes with added clear mylar dust-jacket; binding square and tight. Ownership rubber stamp and pencil notation on half-title of Volume I. Overall Very Good. FIRST EDITIONS. Typography and binding design by Warren Chappell, with a woodcut of the seal of the Supreme Court by Fritz Kredel. Upon his death in 1935, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, bequeathed his residual estate to the United States of America. An act of Congress (P.L. 84-246) established the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Fund, and created the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, for the purpose of the preparation and publication of a history of the Supreme Court of the United States. The series offered here is the product of the committee. It consists of: Vol. I: Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801 by Julius Goebel, Jr.; Vol. II: Foundations of Power: John Marshall, 1801-15, in two parts: Part One by George Lee Haskins; Part Two by Herbert A. Johnson; Vol. III-IV in one volume: The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-35, by G. Edward White with the aid of Gerald Gunther; Vol. V: The Taney Period, 1836-64, by Carl B. Swisher; Vol. VI: Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864-88, by Charles Fairman (second printing); Vol. VII: Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864-88, Part Two, by Charles Fairman; Supplement to Vol. VII: Supplement to Volume VII, Five Justices and the Electoral Commission of 1877, By Charles Fairman; Vol. VIII: Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910, by Owen M. Fiss; Vol. IX: The Judiciary and Responsible Government, 1910-21, in two parts, Part One by Alexander M. Bickel, Part Two by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.; Vol. XII: The Birth of the Modern Constitution, The United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953, by William M. Wiecek. (Inventory #: CH814-404)