Author: Pruyn, Anna Fenn (Parker)
Title: L.L. L. Catalogue of Engravings of Some Distinguished British Jurists and a Few Other Noted Men
Description: Albany, N.Y. Argus Co, 1907. Number 11 of 125 copies produced. Hardcover. Red boards with mounted title block with black lettering; Bookplates on paste-down endpaper; 50 pp. (uncut and untrimmed). Bookplates are "From the Library of Joseph Hodges Choate," "From the Library of Mabel Choate," and "Ex-Libris John V.L. Pruyn." "Joseph Hodges Choate was an American lawyer and diplomat. Choate was associated with many of the most famous litigations in American legal history, including the Kansas prohibition cases, the Chinese exclusion cases, the Isaac H. Maynard election returns case, the Income Tax Suit, and the Samuel J. Tilden, Jane Stanford, and Alexander Turney Stewart will cases. In the public sphere, he was influential in the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art." -- website. Mabel Choate was Choate's daughter. John V. L. Pruyn served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1867-1869. VG (Boards show shelfwear; title block is age-toned and has smudges; Bookplates are clean and intact; text block edges are foxed; pages are bright; binding is solid.) .

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