Law's picture books : the Yale Law Library collection /

"'Illustrated law books' may seem like an oxymoron. After all, law is conceptual, analytic, and so very wordy! Yet for the past decade, over a thousand illustrated law books have been assembled in the Yale Law Library -- spanning eight centuries and four continents. Law's Picture...

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Corporate Authors: Law's Picture Books (Exhibition) New York, N.Y.), Lillian Goldman Law Library, Grolier Club
Other Authors: Widener, Michael, Weiner, Mark Stuart, Goldberg, Jolande E., Blake, Erin C.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Clark, New Jersey : Talbot Publishing, 2017
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Table of Contents:
  • Collecting Yale Law Library's picture books / Michael Widener
  • Reflections on an exhibition / Mark S. Weiner
  • Ars memoria in early law : Looking beneath the picture / Jolande E. Goldberg
  • Law's picture books and the history of book illustration / Erin C. Blake
  • Law's picture books : the Yale Law Library collection [Catalogue]: Symbolizing the law; Depicting the law; Diagramming the law; Calculating the law; Staging the law; Inflicting the law; Arguing the law; Teaching the law; Laughing
  • and crying
  • at the law; Beautifying the law