An Abridgment of Military Laws
Washington, DC: W. H. Morrison, 1887. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Item #10556
Octavo. 440 pp. First edition, thus. As issued, in imitation leather over boards with title in gilt on the spine. Binding rubbed at the extremities and at the joints; some separation at the front inner hinge; remains fairly solid; modern bookplate adhered over institutional rubber stamps on both endpapers; occasional marginal bracketing to the text, but generally, a clean copy. Uncommon in commerce.
This is an abridgment of Winthrop's Military Laws and Precedents (1886) in service of instruction of the cadets at West Point. "Military Laws and Precedents was a masterpiece of painstaking scholarship, brilliant erudition and lucid prose. It collected for the first time in one work the precedents which constitute the framework of military law, gleaned from a bewildering and unusable mass of statutes, regulations, orders, and unpublished opinions and from the amorphous body of customs of the service reposing in scattered fragments in the works of military writers and the minds of military men" Fratcher, William F. "Colonel William Winthrop: A Biographical Sketch." The Judge Advocate Journal. (December 1944. Vol. 1, No. 3) p. 14.
Price: $250.00