THORINGTON/MCCALL BOOK COLLECTION CONTENTS DESCRIPTION

William Sewell Thorington,1847-1915.

The Thorington/McCall Book Collection consists of approximately 163 titles which are comprised of:

Aids—law dictionaries (four volumes), Martindale directories and similar works, A.L.R.

annotations.

Government Documents—Acts of Alabama and Federal Acts. Also Reconstruction-era

federal “Executive Documents.”

Digests—Alabama Digests from the 1850s to the 1920s.

Pamphlets—Virginia appellate brief, also Thorington’s master brief for reports.

Reporters—Printed mostly in America; New York, Massachusetts, and United States

Superior Court.

Treatises—Late-eighteenth century to the 1910s. Illustrate basic changes in procedure

and areas of practice.

Inscriptions, Annotations—Throughout the collection, signatures, annotations, letters,

and a poem are found either laid-in, on the flyleafs, or in the margins of numerous

volumes.

NOTE: A copy of the Thorington/McCall Book Collection title pages is stored in the

Special Collections vertical files.