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Chandler, P[eleg] W[hitman] [1816-1889] Phillips, Stephen H. Editors. The Law Reporter. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company [and other publishers], March 1838-April 1848. 10 volumes (in 9 books). [With] Phillips, Stephen, Editor. The Monthly Law Reporter. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown [and other publishers], May 1848-June 1864. Volumes 11 to 26. [And] Babington, Richard. A Treatise on the Law of Auctions. With an Appendix of Precedents. Philadelphia: John S. Littell / New York: Halsted and Voorhies, 1838. x, 124 pp. Reprinted in The Law Library Vol. 19 No. 2. Bound at rear of first book (containing Vols. 1-2 of The Law Reporter). Complete run of all volumes published. 26 volumes in 25 books, each with a table of cases and a table of contents. Tissue-guarded portrait of Nicholas Hill bound between pp. 640-641 of Vol. 22. This set lacks the following numbers: Vol. 1 No. 11; Vol. 2 Nos. 1-3 [and title page/table of contents], 7, 12; Vol. 5 No. 8; Vol. 19 No. 4. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5"). Tan library buckram, black-stamped volume numbers and institutional name and gilt titles to spines, endpapers renewed, ink property stamps to free endpapers and final leaf of each volume. Moderate toning, early pencil or ink owner signatures or brief annotations to several leaves, clean tears or chips to edges of several leaves, small hole to final leaf of Vol. 23 with minor loss to text on last page, pp. 353-354 and pp. 721-724 in Volume 18 lacking and supplied in fascimile. Internally clean. $850. * Volumes XI-XXVI subtitled New Series I-X. This monthly publication offered articles on legal topics, biographies of leading jurists, reviews of circuit, district and supreme court cases in the United States and England and digests of recent court decisions. Also included were obituary notices, texts of lectures, reviews of new publications and lists of bankruptcies and legislative action in several states. A new series commenced in 1865. "The Law Reporter, besides an able leading article in each number, and a variety of useful information, contains reports nowhere else to be found, as well as cases of general interest, before they are published though the regular channels.": Volume I 3. Marvin, Legal Bibliography (184.