1841
Antique Hardcover Book
10" x 6 3/4"
1423 Pages
The antique hardcover book is in good minus condition, free from rips, tears and writing. The page edges are beautifully marbled. The previous owner's name Charles C. Doe, NH is written in ink on the front free end page. The end pages have stains, there are small stains on a few pages and there is a small hole on the last few pages. The leather boards are in good minus condition with edge wear and stains. The label on the spine has some wear. The binding is tight and square.
Charles Cogswell Doe (April 11, 1830 – March 9, 1896) was an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of New Hampshire from 1859 to 1874, and then, after a brief period when the court was dissolved to be reorganized as the New Hampshire Supreme Court, as chief justice from 1876 to 1896. Roscoe Pound called Doe one of the ten greatest jurists in American history, the "one judge upon the bench of a state court who stands out as a builder of the law since the Civil War." A contemporary commentator has described Doe as "the most creative state judge of the nineteenth century. Please See All Photos