Portrait of a Profession: A History of the Solicitor's Profession, 1100 to the Present Day

This book paints a true-to-life portrait of the solicitor's profession and at the same time shows how its features have developed over the past eight hundred years or so. The author, Harry Kirk, gained first class honours in Modern History at Oxford before being admitted as a solicitor and later sat as a member of the Council of The Law Society for 19 years. He combines his wide experience as a practising solicitor and his talent for research as an historian to give a clear, authoritative account of the history of the solicitors' branch of the legal profession.

Published 1976.

Signed copy. Binding of book is loose. Dust jacket is worn and torn. Cloth covers of book in decent condition, with slight fraying around edges. Some foxing of edges of book, in particular on top edge. Price tag and a bookplate on front endpaper. Also annotations in pencil. Annotations on first few pages. Pages in very good condition.