Group of Eleven 19th-Century Leather Bound Law Books

(11) titles, (18) volumes, bound in full paneled sheep with gilt-lettered labels, to include:

Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books; with an Analysis of the Work by Sir William Blackstone (2 copies of vol. II) (New York: W. E. Dean, 1844 and 1849); Archbold's Summary of the Law Relating to Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases... by John Frederick Archbold and John Jervis (New York: Banks, Gould & Co. and Gould, Banks and Gould, 1846. Fifth American ed.); A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law... by Joseph Chitty (3 vols. complete) (New York: Banks, Gould, & Co. and Gould, Banks & Gould, 1847. Fifth American ed.); A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in the Courts of Equity by Richard Newcombe Gresley (Harrisburg, PA: I. G. M'Kinley & J. M. G. Lescure, 1848. Second ed. From The New Library of Law and Equity); A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (3 vols.) (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1854-1856. Various eds.); A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law: with Notes by John William Smith (Vol. II only of 2 volumes) (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, 1855. Fifth American ed.); The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench, and Common Pleas.... by William Tidd (2 vols. complete) (Philadelphia: Robert H. Small, 1856. Fourth American ed.); A General Index to the English Common Law Reports by George W. Biddle and Richard C. McMurtrie (2 vols. complete) (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., 1857. Second ed.); three law books by Francis Wharton including A Treatise on the Law of Homicide in the United States (Philadelphia: Kay & Brother, 1855), A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States: Comprising a General View of the Criminal Jurisprudence of the Common and Civil Law... (Philadelphia: Kay & Brother, 1857. Fourth and revised ed.), and Precedents of Indictments and Pleas, Adapted to the Use Both of the Courts of the United States and those of all the Several States... (Philadelphia: Kay & Brother, 1857. Second and revised ed.).

Largest 10 1/4 x 7 in.; smallest 9 1/4 x 6 in.

Private Collection, Wilmington, North Carolina

Overall good condition; boards with scuffing, rubbing, edgewear, peeling typical of sheepskin, occasional stains, and bumped corners; spines with wear including cracking, rubbing, and chipping with one label partially detached, and wear to ends with occasional loose band; joints rubbed, some cracking at joints and hinges, with one board partially detached and a couple slightly loose but most volumes still very sturdy; interiors with toning and foxing, an occasional damp stain, soiling, lightly frayed edge, pencil marks, and folded corner; frequent wear to endpapers including tears and some free endpapers removed; rare wormhole and burn damage; one volume with loss to corner of front board and subsequent damage to preliminaries, A Treatise on the Criminal Law with additional wear including heavier internal soiling, a loose page, and label remnants on spine, one volume with bookseller sticker on paste-down; several with ownership signature of Will A. Jenkins.