Portrait of a Patriot: The Law Reports (1761-1765): The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior

The collection Quincy's papers has come to what the editors suggest may by the most unique and important volumes: his reports on cases of the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the oldest court in continental America and ancestor of today's Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His reports were the first indigenous to the colonies, though reports of English cases had been being printed and imported for over a century. They were first published by his great-grandson Samuel Miller Quincy in 1865. His texts, in the original spelling and orthography, face pages of commentary by Coquillette (Boston College) and York (history, Brigham Young U.), The two volumes are paged and indexed together. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Daniel R. Coquillette is J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law at Boston College and Lester Kissel Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Neil Longley York is the Karl G. Maeser Professor of General Education and Chair of the History Department at Brigham Young University.