Name: Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection
Brand: Talbot Publishing
SKU: 9781616191603
Price: 505.00 HKD
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Widener, Mark S. Weiner
ISBN: 9781616191603

Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection

By Michael Widener, Mark S. Weiner

Talbot Publishing December 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781616191603
Publisher: Talbot Publishing
Publication: December 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Illustrated law books may seem like an oxymoron. After all, law is conceptual, analytic, and so very wordy! Yet for the past decade, over a thousand illustrated law books have been assembled in the Yale Law Library -- spanning eight centuries and four continents.

Law's Picture Books began as a major exhibition of that collection at the Grolier Club (9/13 to 11/18/17) in New York City, curated by Rare Book Librarian Michael Widener and legal historian Mark S. Weiner. In challenging the stereotype of legal literature as a dreary expanse of dry text, this book will surprise and delight both bibliophiles and members of the legal community.

This handsome full-color book is enhanced by the essays Collecting Yale Law Library's Picture Books, (Michael Widener), Reflections on an Exhibition, (Mark S. Weiner), Ars Memoria in Early Law: Looking Beneath the Picture, (Jolande E. Goldberg, Law Library of Congress), and Law's Picture Books and the History of Book Illustration, (Erin C. Blake, Folger Shakespeare Library).