Viewing Douglas A. Hedin: "For Sale: 'Law Books By The Yard' - Lawyers' Libraries and the Market for Expandable Bookcases at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."Douglas A. Hedin: "For Sale: 'Law Books By The Yard' - Lawyers' Libraries and the Market for Expandable Bookcases at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."From the 1890s to the First World War, law book publishers produced thousands of treatises, textbooks, case reports, dictionaries, digests, compilations of laws and reprints that they sold to the bar. Many lawyers who were recent law school graduates were eager consumers of these books. But eventually supply exceeded demand and large inventories of new and used law books accumulated at publishing houses and used book dealers. To increase demand, they began offering large quantities of books at a deep discount--once advertising twenty feet of law books for $10 ("Law Books By The Yard").
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