A History of French Public Law

1915. Brissaud, Jean. A History of French Public Law. Translated by James W. Garner. With Introductions by Harold D. Hazeltine & Westel W. Willoughby. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915. lviii, 581 pp. Original blue cloth, with gilt stamped spine. Light wear to spine and corners, spine ends starting to fray. Internally clean. A very good copy. $25. * Volume IX of the Continental Legal History Series. The previous owner of this book was the Harvard-educated lawyer George David Ayers (1857-1933) of Boston. A biographical article on Ayers, plus a photographic portrait, can be found in Richard Herndon and Edwin M. Bacon, Men of Progress (Boston, 1896), 195.