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CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL’S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE
[MARSHALL, John (1755-1835), his copy]. ALLEN, John. Select Cases in B.R. 22, 23, & 24. Car. I. Regis, Reported. London: George Pawlet for Robert Vincent, 1688. Small folio (279 x 178 mm). Approval for publishing leaf facing title-page. (Some marginal dampstaining, browning throughout). 20th century cloth (cover detached, extremities soiled). Provenance: John Marshall (his ownership signature on approval leaf recto, trimmed after the last “a” in “Marshall”; contemporary inscription on front flyleaf, “From the library of Chief Justice Marshall with his autograph”; early 20th century printed portrait of Marshall mounted below notation); Charles Edward Souther (ownership stamp); gifted to the Library of the New York Law Institute (presentation stamps and other institutional rubber stamps including on title with signature of Souther); numerous contemporary notations in margins including on title-page. FROM THE LIBRARY OF A FOUNDING FATHER AND ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL JUSTICES IN THE HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT. John Marshall was a prominent American statesman and jurist who served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 until his death in 1835. As Chief Justice, Marshall had a profound and lasting impact on the development of American constitutional law including his influential opinions, most notably in cases such as Marbury v. Madison (1803) and McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Marshall helped establish the principles of judicial review and federal supremacy. His tenure as Chief Justice strengthened the role of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution and defining the scope of federal power.