A TEXT-BOOK OF JURISPRUDENCE

Fourth edition, published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, 1972, hardcover, index, 658 pages, condition: as new.

The author's major published work, A Text-Book of Jurisprudence, appeared in 1946 and went through further editions. It won the Swiney Prize, a British award for works on jurisprudence. In Australia and elsewhere, it was (in one reviewer's words) "to many students the text-book of jurisprudence".

The author, Sir George Whitecross Paton (1902 1985),  was an Australian legal scholar and Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University from 1951 until 1968.