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1892 · ref. 08929 — Boston: Little Brown and Company. Printed by S. J. Parkhill and Co. in Boston 1892. Fifteenth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. LAW. Simon Greenleaf 1783-1853 Simon Greenleaf Croswell b.1854. "A Treatise on the Law of Evidence Volume One Only Fifteenth Edition." Boston: Little Brown and Company. Printed by S. J. Parkhill and Co. in Boston 1892. Fifteenth edition. Volume one only. English language. Hardcover in original tan buckram cloth with spine in five compartments red and black titling-labels in second and fourth gilt lettered. Nonfiction legal text with dedication prefaces advertisement note index to cases index and six chapters. 1 volume only. 8vo. Binding: 9 1/2 x 6 inches. Paper: 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. 56 oz. xciv 784 pp. Cloth on bottom right-hand corner of board rubbed through and board partially eroded. Shelf-wear. Ink ownership signature on front fly-leaf which is dog-earred. Toning. Tideline to very bottom right-hand corner. Text clean. Very Good Minus. No ISBN. No ASIN. OCLC: 60724880. "Greenleaf was a lawyer and major contributor to the field of legal apologetics in which legal scholars used their training to defend religious doctrines. He published his 'Treatise on the Law of Evidence' while a professor at Harvard Law School. It was one of the first American treatises on evidence and became a standard work through the rest of the 19th century William and Mary. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Printed by S. J. Parkhill and Co. in Boston hardcover