Out of Print
Preface Any law book might justly be excused a glow of pride at achieving twenty-five editions in ninety-two years, (1st edition 1868) and Snell may claim this excuse as of right. For over the years it has succeeded in satisfying in marked degree many disparate demands.
The innocent but close attention of the student seeks lucidity and enlightenment in every sentence; the teacher very properly requires both accuracy and penetration; and the practitioner, without spurning those qualities, looks above all for comprehensiveness of illustration and citation.
Snell remains, as it always has been, primarily a students' book; but it is one of these students' books which many an ex-student has kept and used with profit, and we hope it may long remain so. With its eight years' seniority over Pollock on Contracts, Snell can in fact claim the high title of doyen of the great band of students' books on English law...
R.E.M. P.V.B. New York University School of Law, and Lincoln's Inn August Bank Holiday, 1960Second Revised Impresssion, 1963
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