Accession number
PML 199118
Creator
Minsky, Richard, creator, binder.
Published
New York : Richard Minsky, issued April 10, 2002
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Karen B. Cohen in honor of the Morgan's Centennial, 2024.
Notes
Part of Richard Minsky's The Bill of Rights limited edition set, a collection of 10 bookworks and a broadside that exemplify and comment on the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Amendment VII states "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."
The Morgan Library & Museum's copy is no. VI--one of 9 copies projected to be issued by the artist. .
Amendment VII states "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."
The Morgan Library & Museum's copy is no. VI--one of 9 copies projected to be issued by the artist. .
Description
viii, 388 pages ; 24 x 16.5 cm
Summary
A signed copy of Litigation explosion by Walter K. Olson (New York, NY : Truman Talley Books-Dutton, ©1991) rebound by Richard Minsky, and housed in a slipcase covered with court calendar listings from the New York Law Journal; coated with two layers of ultraviolet filter acrylic.
Binding
Spine bound in gold leather with the title foil stamped in silver (neither is the genuine metal); covered in artificial $20 bills on which Jackson has been replaced by James Madison, whose signature replaces that of the Secretary of the Treasury, and whose title reads Father of the Bill of Rights; the text of the Seventh Amendment is superimposed on the U.S. Treasury Seal, and there are several other changes.
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