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LAW-RELATED FINE PRESS BOOKS, UNITED STATES
FREDERICK DAVID ELY: JUSTICE OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT IN THE CITY
OF BOSTON / memorial of Norfolk County Bar Association, as presented to the
Supreme Judicial Court at Dedham, Massachusetts, April 2, 1923. Boston: Privately
printed, 1923. 23 p. ; 23 cm.
"Two hundred copies of this Memorial have been printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount
Press, Boston, in December, 1923" – colophon. Library's copy is no. 65. Smith Merrymount, no.
595. Call no.: KF 368 E49 F73 1923
HENRY WHEATON, AN APPRECIATION: BEING THE ADDRESS DELIVERED
BEFORE THE ALUMNI OF BROWN UNIVERSITY ON THE OCCASION OF
THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS GRADUATION, JUNE
SEVENTEEN, MDCCCCII / by William Vail Kellen. Boston: Printed at the
Merrymount Press, 1902. 52 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 25 cm.
Presentation slip laid in: "With the compliments of W. V. Kellen". Smith Merrymount, no. 144.
Call no.: KF 368 W43 K44 1902
JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY. Boston: Privately printed [D.B. Updike, The Merrymount
Press], 1917. v, [143] p. ; 25 cm.
Memorial tribute, including contribution from Oliver Wendell Holmes. Smith Merrymount, no.
472. Call no.: KF 368 G7 J6
A LAST WILL / Williston Fish. Boston: Alfred Bartlett, 1908. [8], 18, [2] p. ; 17 cm.
Title in red and black; initials in red. "The Merrymount Press, Boston" – t.p. verso. Third
Merrymount printing, according to Blanck, "Where There's a Will…". Gift of the Estate of
Mildred A. O'Donohoe (1942-2000). Smith Merrymount, no. 306. Call no.: PS 3511 I83 L3 1908
A LAST WILL / Williston Fish. [Variant ed.] Boston: Alfred Bartlett, 1908. [8], 9-18, [2]
p. ; 17 cm.
B
Differs from earlier 1908 Merrymount Press printing in that introduction (p. 1-[5]) not included
in this printing; also, bound in printed wrappers of pale lavender paper folded over flexible white
boards. Library's c. 1 has laid-in "Note for Bibliomaniacs Only," undated, which states: "This
edition is textually correct and as approved by the Author ... For a discussion of this altogether
charming piece see The New Colophon, Vol. 1, Part One, January 1948", i.e. Blanck, "Where
There's a Will…", in which this edition is described as the fourth (and last) Merrymount
printing. Library's c. 3 also has printed note, on folded sheet with "Note for Bibliomaniacs
Only": "Plucked from the remainder bins of Boston and sent with the holiday greetings of Stella
and Jacob Blanck 1950". Gift of the Estate of Mildred A. O'Donohoe (1942-2000). Call no.: PS
3511 I83 L3 1908b [c.1, c.2, c.3]
MARCUS PERRIN KNOWLTON, LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME JU-
DICIAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS: A ME-
MORIAL. Privately Printed, 1919. 55 p. : port. ; 25 cm.
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