[HAMILTON, Alexander (1757-1804), his copy]. Reports of Cas...

ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S COPY

[HAMILTON, Alexander (1757-1804), his copy]. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery… Collected by William Peere Williams. London: H. Woodfall and W. Strahan for A. Millar; and T. Cadell, 1768. Vol. 2 only, folio (305 x 197 mm). Later cloth, leather lettering-pieces gilt (spine sunned, extremities stained or browned). (Spotting and browning throughout). Provenance: ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S COPY (contemporary signature on title in an unknown hand); presumably passed to his son James Alexander Hamilton (his ownership signature on the title-page above his father’s name); Library of the New York Law Institute (rubber stamp on title). FORMERLY OWNED BY A FOUNDING AMERICAN FAMILY.