Leading Cases Ex Libris Arthur Quiller Couch
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Ex libris Sir Arthur Quiller Couch with additional ownership signature from Walter K Firminger
Pollock, Frederick. Leading Cases Done Into English and Other Diversions. Macmillan and Company : London. 1892. First Collected Edition.
Expanding upon an earlier edition published in 1876, Leading Cases and Other Diversions is an unusual poetic parody law book by British jurist and legal historian Sir Frederick Pollock dedicated to the poet Charles Algernon Swinburne. The first half takes inspiration from notable legal incidents and landmark rulings in British during the 18th and 19th centuries with Pollock’s poetic adaptations peppered by footnotes featuring excerpts from the cases in question. The second half is given over to the titular diversions, Pollock’s translations of Greek poetry and compositions in several languages.
This dual association copy is marked with the book plate of the Cornish writer Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 with his motto “Do and Abide” as well as the ownership signature of Walter K. Firminger, historian and archdeacon of Calcutta, from his time at Oxford’s Merton College.
Small 8vo, 98pp + 2 ads, blue cloth boards with title and author gilt. Corners bumped, small bubble to front board, wear to board edges with bruising to bottom of front board. Spine darkened with wear to ends. Small scuff to back board. Book block darkened. Green card pastedowns and endpapers with the library stamp of A.Q. Couch on front pastedown with contemporary bookseller’s sticker below. Ownership signature from Walter K Firminger on third free endpaper. Pages clean. Binding split page 48 – 49. Good condition.
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