Under the Oaks Commemorative Volume

I have acquired this copy of "Under the Oaks", the 1904 volume commemorating the 50th anniversary of the start of the Republican Party in Jackson, MI. This volume has the signature of Arthur Tuttle, a Michigan judge who was one of the original founders and is pictured in the book. I believe this was perhaps a presentation volume. Can anyone give me any further details about this volume and its potential value.

 

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Judge Tuttle can't have been one of the founding members of 1854, as (says Wikipedia) he was born in 1868. But he was certainly active in Michigan Republican politics at the time, and was presumably a notable part of the anniversary. Your guess that this was a presentation copy may well be correct - I see a cloth-bound copy on Abebooks, so this version in leather may have been specially bound & given (or sold) to the participants. Or that one may have been rebound after its binding fell apart - the leather in question was the cheap version of the day, often found on 'fancy' poetry collections, and regrettably susceptible to red rot, a condition where the leather becomes crumbly and messy.

The book's spineless state, while inviting quips, is not good. The text is available in many reprint editions, so any value lies in the association with the Judge - who might care? He is not particularly famous, but his most notable case involved the bankruptcy of the Lincoln Motor Company, bought by Ford, so -maybe- a car fancying lawyer might want it, but it would be a hard sell in that condition.

 

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Bills.

 

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