The science of law. Part of the “International Scientific Series,” volume X.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. 12mo. xx, 417, [vii]. SECOND EDITION. With 1 folding diagram. Original blindstamped publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on the spine; interior excellent. With the bookplate of Arnold Thackray on the paste-down. Item #14825
Second edition (first published in London the prior year). An attractive copy of the author’s most well known work, published as part of a series of noteworthy science-related volumes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Amos intended his book to be “for the instruction of all serious students, whether of the Physical or of the so-called Moral Sciences,” believing that law ought to become an integral part of a complete, general education.
An independent review of the book upon its publication notes:
“The valuable series of ‘International Scientific’ works, prepared by eminent specialists, with the intention of popularizing information in their several branches of knowledge, has received a good accession in this compact and thoughtful volume. It is a difficult task to give the outlines of a complete theory of law in a portable volume, which he who runs may read, and probably Professor Amos himself would be the last to claim that he has perfectly succeeded in doing this. But he has certainly done much to clear the science of law from the technical obscurities which darken it to minds which have had no legal training, and to make clear to his ‘ lay’ readers in how true and high a sense it can assert its right to be considered a science, and not a mere practice” (The Christian Register).
Amos (1835-1886) was a well regarded English jurist who was educated at Cambridge and taught at the University of London. He later settled in Egypt where, after the Anglo-Egyptian war, he became a judge in the court of appeals.
Price: $100.00