CATALOGUE 



OF 



BLANCIIARD & LEA'S PUBLICATIONS. 



CAMPBELL'S LORD CHANCELLORS. New Edition- (Just Issued.) 



LIVES OE THE LORD CHANCELLORS 



AND 



KEEPERS OF THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND. 



FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE lY. 



BY LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE CAMPBELL, A. M., F. R. S. E. 



Second American, from the Third London Edition. 

 Complete in seven handsome crown 8vo. volumes, extra cloth, or halfmorocco. 



This has been reprinted from the author's most recent edition, and embraces 

 his extensive modifications and additions. It will therefore be found eminently 

 worthy a continuance of the great favor with which it has hitherto been received. 



Of the solid merit of the work our judgment may be gathered from what has already 

 been said. We will add, that from its infinite fund of anecdote, and happy variety of 

 style, the book addresses itself with equal claims to the mere general reader, as to tlie 

 legal or historical inquirer; and while we avoid the stereotyped commonplace of affirm- 

 ing that no library can be complete without it, we feel constrained to afford it a higher 

 tribute by pronouncing it entitled to a distinguished place on the shelves of every scholar 

 who is fortunate enough to possess it.— Frazer's Magazine. 



A work wtiich will take its place in our libraries as one of the most brilliant and 

 valuable contributions to the literature of the present day. — At/iencpum. 



The brilliant success of this work in England is by no means greater than its merits. 

 It is certainly the most brilliant contribution to English history made within our recollec- 

 tion ; it has the charm and freedom of Biography combined with llie elaborate and care- 

 ful comprehensiveness of History. — N. Y. Tribiine. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR— TO MATCH— (Now Ready.) 

 LIVES OF THE 



CHiEF-JUSTiCES OF ENGLAND, 



From the Norman Conquest to the Death of Lord Mansfield. 



SECOND EDITION. 



In two very neat vols., crown Svo., extra cloth, or halfmorocco. 

 To match, the "Lives of the Chancellors" of the same author. 

 In this work the author has displayed the same patient investigation of histo- 

 rical facts, depth of research, and quick appreciation of character which have 

 rendered his previous volumes so deservedly popular. Though the " Lives of 

 the Chancellors" embrace a long line of illustrious personages intimately con- 

 nected with the history of England, they leave something still to be filled up to 

 complete the picture, and it is this that the author has attempted in the present 

 work. The vast amount of curious personal details concerning the eminent 

 men whose biographies it contains, the lively sketches of interesting periods 

 of history, and the graphic and vivid style of the author, render it a work of 

 great attraction for the student of history and the general reader. 



Although the period of history embraced by these volumes had been previously tra- 

 versed by the recent work of the noble and^carned author, and a great portion of its 

 most exciting incidents, especially those of a constitutional nature, there narrated, yet 

 in "The Lives of the Chief-Justices" there is a fund both of interesting information and 

 valuable matter, which renders the book well worthy of perusal by every one who 

 desires to obtain an acquaintance with the constitutional history of his country, o.- as- 

 pires to the rank of either a statesman or a lawyer. Ft w lawyers of Lord Campbell's 

 eminence could have produced such a work as he has put forth. None but lawyers ot 

 his experience and acquirements could have compiled a work combining the same in- 

 terest as a narration, to the public generally, with the same amount of practical infor- 

 mation for professional aspirants more particularly.— jBrim^nja. 

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