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Herbert A. Johnson is Hollings Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of South Carolina.

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Herbert Alan Johnson's 1978 book Imported Eighteenth-Century Law Treatises in American Libraries, 1700-1799 (University of Tennessee Press) attempts to answer a very limited number of questions: what law books, published abroad between 1700 and 1799, were American lawyers likely to own? The book was designed, Johnson writes, "to identify those law treatises which had the greatest currency in the American colonies and states, with a view toward the eventual preparation of a microform publication of the most common titles" (xi).

Johnson has here collected the titles (and, where possible, edition information) of books from twenty-two American libraries (from John Adams to Jasper Yeates), coming up with 212 titles held in at least one of the libraries. For those he notes which library or libraries held the titles. In an appendix he sorts the titles by category and by the number of libraries which held them. A second appendix prints sections of a few of the library inventories used, although frustratingly for those interested in libraries generally, Johnson sometimes only prints the sections of inventories pertaining to law books (but without noting when he's done so, which is annoying).

Overall, a useful starting point for something like that, but thankfully with today's more robust tools and resources, similar studies in the future have the potential to be significantly more broad, deep, and useful.

http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2012/08/book-review-imported-eighteenth-century....
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JBD1 | Aug 15, 2012 |
While rather dry, Johnson provides a good survey of the afflictions of U.S. Army aviation prior to entering World War I. Even if Congress had been prepared to extend more funding, the increasingly dysfunctional influence of the Wright Bros. and bad command relations in the Signal Corps suggest that the money would have been wasted. The climax of these factors was the ill-fated deployment of the 1st Aero Squadron on Pershing's punitive expedition to capture Pancho Villa, which the author gives one a good account of. Apart from that the friction between fliers and non-pilot superior officers in the Signal Corps detailed in this book do seem to be the embryo of the contentious relationship between the Air Service and the rest of the U.S. Army, post-1918.… (meer)
 
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