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Author: Wilson, H.B.
Title: The American Juror: Being a guide for jurymen throughout the United States. Containing rules for testing the credibility of witnesses and weighing and estimating evidence, together with a system of forensic reasoning for jurors
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:J.B. Lippincott
Date Published: 1868
Description:

240 pp. 18x10.8 cm. (7x4¼"), original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author in pencil on the front flyleaf. Scarce guide for those unfortunate enough not to avoid the servitude of jury duty, somewhat controversial in its day - in a review of the book in the April 18, 1869 issue of the New York Times, it was wondered "whether it is a good book to put into the hands of jurors; whether it is best that jurymen should 'test the credibility of witnesses' by a set of rules previously learned, and whether a system of forensic reasoning is necessary for jurors at all... This is less a book for jurymen than for lawyers..." Notwithstanding this criticism, it "is a handy compilation and collection of facts regarding trials by jury and the evidence adduced in such trials..."

Fraying to spine ends,corners worn; front hinge cracked, very good overall.