852: RARE – Justice Holmes’s Two Annotated Copies of The Common Law

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. owned at least two copies of the first, 1881 printing of his The Common Law, both of which he annotated over many years with corrections, citations, and new thoughts. These copies survive at Harvard, and one of them, the copy in Special Collections at the Harvard Law School Library, has recently been digitized. This … Continue reading 852: RARE – Justice Holmes’s Two Annotated Copies of The Common Law