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EARLIEST TREATISE ON GUARANTY INSURANCE LAW

A treatise on guaranty insurance: including therein as subsidiary branches the law of fidelity, commercial, and judicial insurances, covering all forms of compensated suretyship, such as official and private fidelity bonds, building bonds, credit and title insurances.

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1902.

Large 8vo, pp. xxxviii, 547, [1 blank]; fore-edge a little stained, but overall a very good, clean copy in contemporary calf, panelled spine filleted in gilt with contrasting lettering-pieces; front hinge cracked but holding well, some dampstaining to the top edges, slightly bowed; early ownership inscription to the front free end-paper.

£125

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A treatise on guaranty insurance: including therein as subsidiary branches the law of fidelity, commercial, and judicial insurances, covering all forms of compensated suretyship, such as official and private fidelity bonds, building bonds, credit and title insurances.

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Only edition of the first treatise on the theory and practice of guaranty insurance law and its branches.

Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) I 729. No copy held in UK institutions. The British Library has a copy of a later edition.

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