The Lives & Times the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

Flanders, Henry. The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (2 volume set). New York: James Cockcroft & Company, 1875. "Revised Edition" on the spines. [12058] Two volumes in russet cloth decorated in black & bright gilt, the bindings are edge-worn with fraying at the spine ends and corner tips, each 9 x 6 inches. Old library bookplate & stamp on the front end papers, otherwise unmarked. Frontispiece portraits of John Jay and John Marshall. Vol. I. xxv, [1], [11]-645, [2] pages, with one page having a small portion stuck to another, now separated. Vol. II. xvi, [9]-560, [1], with the final free end paper torn and laid in. Both volumes with a thin tidemark in the bottom margins. Good. Hardcover. "It has been the author's careful endeavor to state facts with precision and suppress or extenuate nothing that the public were entitled to know. He trusts that the day has passed when exaggeration can supply the place of truth, and empty eulogy take the place of authentic information. It is believed that the reader will find in the following pages the political history of his country fairly related, and the character of its public men delineated without improper bias." - Preface. The lives of John Jay, John Rutledge, William Cushing, Oliver Ellsworth, and John Marshall.