404 pages, indexed. Volume X of a ten volume set. Fourth edition. Marbled boards with lightly chipped leather. The book is ex library and the pages are interspersed with not very obtrusive library stamps. An attractive copy, clean and solid. "John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, PC, FRSE (15 September 1779 - 23 June 1861) was a British Liberal politician, lawyer and man of letters...Following in the path struck out by Strickland in her Lives of the Queens of England, and by Lord Brougham's Lives of Eminent Statesmen, Campbell produced Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the earliest times till the reign of Queen Victoria, in ten volumes. He followed it with Lives of the Chief Justices of England, in four volumes (two additional volumes were a "Continuation by Sir Joseph Arnould - Late Judge of the High Court of Bombay"). He also wrote Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Reconsidered." (Wikipedia)