Sir Robert Chambers Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson Tapa dura - 1998 - 1st Edición

University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Foxing to top page ends. Clean, unmarked pages. xxii, 698 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. <br> "Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803) was a literary as well as a legal man. Friend and collaborator of Samuel Johnson, professor of English law at Oxford University, and one of the four judges on the first Supreme Court of India, Chambers was an enormously influential figure in the eighteenth-century British empire. This book is the first authoritative biography of Chambers and is also the first major contribution in decades to historical scholarship on Johnson. It demonstrates Chambers's important role in early English legal education, in Samuel Johnson's life and political thinking, and in the formation of British India during a period of active cultural exchange between East and West."--Jacket

Hardback, no dust jacket, 698 pages. Signed and inscribed by the author. GOOD, ex-library