Product code: Extremely Rare Pre-Civil War North Carolina buy Law Book from 1856
This is an extremely rare example of Edward Cantwell's "The North Carolina Magistrate," printed in Raleigh, NC in 1856 by Henry D. Turner and bound by DeCarteret & Armstrong. Known commonly as "Cantwell's Justice," it was intended as a revised version of Benjamin Swaim's "North Carolina Justice" published in 1839. This was bound in smooth tan calfskin with a red Morocco leather title block buy on the spine with gilt lettering & lines. Cracking of the leather at the hinges, but covers still attached with some other scuffs & chips of the leather. All pages present & tightly bound with the paper age-toned, with spotting & some staining. Former owner, James McClees, signed both covers in ink & inside numerous times in pencil. McClees was a prominent landowner, businessman, & attorney in Tyrrell County before & after the Civil War. His main land holdings were in the township of Gum Tree on the Alligator River off Albemarle Sound. He later lived in the county seat, Columbia, after the war.
This is an extremely rare example of Edward Cantwell's "The North Carolina Magistrate," printed in Raleigh, NC in 1856 by Henry D. Turner and bound by DeCarteret & Armstrong. Known commonly as "Cantwell's Justice," it was intended as a revised version of Benjamin Swaim's "North Carolina Justice" published in 1839. This was bound in smooth tan calfskin with a red Morocco leather title block buy on the spine with gilt lettering & lines. Cracking of the leather at the hinges, but covers still attached with some other scuffs & chips of the leather. All pages present & tightly bound with the paper age-toned, with spotting & some staining. Former owner, James McClees, signed both covers in ink & inside numerous times in pencil. McClees was a prominent landowner, businessman, & attorney in Tyrrell County before & after the Civil War. His main land holdings were in the township of Gum Tree on the Alligator River off Albemarle Sound. He later lived in the county seat, Columbia, after the war.