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Description and Holding Information
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Chicago Law Institute Library Catalog, 1881 + supps. to 1885
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Catalog of the Library of the Chicago Law Institute: n.a., (5)+303p, Chicago, pr. for the Law Institute, 1881; Plus non-cumulative annual supplements
for the years 1982, 41p, 1983, 36p, 1984, 60p, & 1985, 39+vii p, all by the same publisher. (In this edition of the Institute’s catalog, both the
main work and the supplements are divided into two sections, organized respectively by author and subject. The subject section in the main work starts at
p. 207. The pages in the Roman numeral sequence at the end of the 1985 supplement list the membership of the Law Institute as of 9 Jan. 1886. The
Chicago Law Institute was founded in 1857 with the “object and intention of its organization” being “for literary purposes, the cultivation of legal
science, the advancement of jurisprudence, and the formation of a law library in the City of Chicago, in the county of Cook.” The library had grown to
about 7,000 volumes by October of 1871, when the Great Chicago Fire totally destroyed the collection. Rebuilding began immediately, assisted by donations
from around the country; e.g., a gift of 109 volumes of the English Statutes at large-“well bound”-from Professor Langdell of Harvard. Within a year
of the fire 2,000 volumes had been assembled, and by 1881, when the present catalog was published, the collection had been rebuilt to ca. 14,000
volumes. On 30 September 1963, the Cook County Board of Commissioners established a new entity, the Cook County Law Library, as a library open to all in
the legal community and to the public. On 6 December 1965 the Institute was dissolved, its library in the County Building was closed, and its
extensive, and in many ways unique, collection was transferred to the new Cook County Law Library.)
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Title:
Catalogue of the Library of the Chicago Law Institute.
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OCLC Number:
60729735
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