262pp including publisher's ads; tipped-in colour plate frontispiece, 31 tipped-in portraits in sepia. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on front and spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine; bumped and rounded spine ends. Shelf-wear. Rounded corners. Gilt sprayed top text block edge, dusty; Dusty top text block edge; remaining edges untrimmed. Cracked and stretched hinges, binding quite loose. Some light foxing throughout.
A sometimes light-hearted examination of the legal profession and some of its leading figures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
