Picturing the law

Legal iconography covers a wide choice of subjects. Illustrations in legal books form a class of its own. In the exhibition "Law's Picture Books" at The Grolier Club in New York illustrated law books from the rich collection of Yale's Lillian Goldman Law Library are put on display. In some previous posts here this collection has figure prominently, but this is the occasion to show more of its glories. The exhibition is accompanied by a number of online videos created by Marek Weiner and Mike Widener, curator of the Rare Book Room at Yale Law Library. Yale Law Library show a second related exhibition, "Around the World with Law's Picture Books", curated by Mike Widener and Emma Molina Widener.