Law Book Catalog of Patrick Byrne, Philadelphia Bookseller, 1802

Professor Erwin Surrency laments the fact that "all too few of [the law book dealers] have been preserved." One of the least known law booksellers of the early Republic era was Patrick Byrne. This short article provides basic biographical information and a review of his first law book catalog, one of the earliest law book catalogs published in the first years of the nineteenth century.