first edition
1912
by Wharton, Francis; James M. Kerr
1912. Bancroft-Whitney; Lawyers Co-Op., 1912.. Bancroft-Whitney; Lawyers Co-Op., 1912. Wharton, Francis [1820-1889]. Kerr, James M. (Editor). A Treatise on Criminal Law. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Co.; Rochester, N.Y.: The Lawyers Co-Op. Pub. Co., 1912. 3 volumes. Thick octavo (6" x 9"). Original publisher's tan buckram, red and black lettering pieces. Moderate shelf wear and soiling. Ex-library with property stamps to inside front covers, title pages and page edges. Text clean and bright. $150. * Eleventh edition. The 1909 codification of the criminal statutes of the United states has been added to this work as an appendix. "It has always been admitted by the practitioners in the Criminal Courts, that until Mr. Wharton's first edition, no book existed which was of any very great use to the American lawyer. [It is considered with others by Vanderbilt in Men and Measures in the Law] as one of America's 'great textbooks' in which 'the history of American law might well be traced.": Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 454, citing later (12th) edition.
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