Precedents So Scrawl'd and Blurr'd: Readers' Marks in Law Books
Acknowledgments
Anthony Fitzherbert. The new boke of iustices of peace. London: Richard Tottel, 1554.
Thanks to the following for their contributions to this exhibition:
- Jacky Bratton, Royal Holloway University of London
- Jan Conroy, Public Affairs, Yale Law School
- Bill Cotter, W.S. Cotter Rare Books
- Diane Ducharme, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
- John S. Gilkeson, Jr., Arizona State University
- Julie Graves-Krishnaswami, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School
- Shana Jackson, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School
- Trip Kirkpatrick, Digital Scholarship, Yale University Library
- Caitlyn Lam, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School
- Ryan Martins, Law 2020, Yale Law School
- William Sullivan, J.D. 2016, Boston College Law School
- Otto Vervaart, Utrecht, Netherlands
- The students of The Wall, Yale Law School
- Emma Molina Widener, New Haven, Connecticut
- Henry Granville Widener, Catholic University of America
- Anders Winroth, History, Yale University
Quotes are taken from the following:
- John Anstey. The pleader's guide: a didactic poem, in two books, containing the conduct of a suit at law, with the arguments of Counsellor Bother'um and Counsellor Bore'um in an action betwixt John-a- Gull, and John-a-Gudgeon for assault and battery, at a late contested election. London: T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, 1796-1802. 2 volumes.
- Tom Mole, The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More than Words (London: Elliott & Thompson, 2019).
- David Pearson, Books as History: The Importance of Books Beyond Their Text (London: British Library, 2012).
- William H. Sherman, Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
- Roger E. Stoddard, Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained (Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1985).