The Historians of Anglo-American Law

Holdsworth, W.S. The Historians of Anglo-American Law. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. 175 pp. Reprinted 1994 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 0-9630106-9-7. Cloth. $50. * In chronological order, beginning with Coke and Selden, Holdsworth surveys the work of the great practitioners of Anglo-American legal history. No one interested in the growth of Anglo-American law can fail to read with pleasure and profit this stimulating treatment of the development of legal history.

It was translated by Hastie in 1888 ; and a revised edition of it appears in the
Essays in Anglo-American Legal History.51 It deals at some length with the Anglo
- Saxon sources, and the Anglo-Norman sources down to the end of the
thirteenth ...