[Rarebooks] fs-Blackstone's Commentaries

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of sets of Blackstone's Commentaries which we have in 
stock; for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where 
you may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase: 
www.meyerbos.com

1.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Four Volumes.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979. Original wraps, as 
new. [70379] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70379     $ 110.00

The facsimile re-issue in paperback of the first edition printed at
Oxford between 1765 and 1769; with four brief scholarly
introductions, one for each volume.

2.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Four Volumes.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002. Original blue and 
red cloth, slipcased, a very good set. [71829]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71829
                                                          $ 195.00

The facsimile re-issue of the first edition printed at Oxford
between 1765 and 1769; with four brief scholarly introductions, one
for each volume.

3.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Four Volumes. Compare Eller 3 and 6.  John Exshaw et al, Dublin,
1766-71.  Contemporary calf, rubbed and chipped but generally well
preserved. [11985 C17AXYL26E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=11985   $ 2,000.00

A mixed Irish edition of the most famous of all English law books,
comprised in part of the earliest pirated edition (and the first
octavo printing) and, in the case of volume 2, of an unknown
pirated printing predating any previously located.

4.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Four Volumes. Eller 1.  Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford,
1765-69.  Contemporary calf, rebacked, joints rubbed; a good,
usable set. [67979 XY] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67979  $ 15,000.00

First edition of the pre-eminently collectible work of
Anglo-American law, the principal fruits of Blackstone's Vinerian
Professorship at Oxford, the first legal chair in the English
speaking world whose first occupant was Blackstone.

5.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. In
Four Books. Fourth Edition.  Printed at the Clarendon Press,
Oxford, 1770.  Contemporary calf, quite worn, neatly rebacked, a
very fresh set. [57275] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=57275   $ 3,500.00

The last quarto edition printed at Oxford, whose press Blackstone
had done much to improve and reform, published in the year
Blackstone was knighted and became a justice of the Court of Common
Pleas.

6.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. In
Four Books. The Fifth Edition.  Eller 10.  Printed for John Exshaw
[and others; imprint varies], Dublin, 1773.  Contemporary polished
calf, morocco labels, gilt, a bit rubbed and stained, yet a
superior, fresh set. [70741] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70741   $ 2,500.00

Likely the most attractive Dublin-printed set we have ever had of
this, the best known of all English legal treatises, the pirated
Irish editions of which are normally rather drab productions when
compared with their Oxford and London cousins.

7.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. In
Four Books. The Tenth Edition. . .Additions by Richard Burn. .
.Continued. . .by John Williams.  Printed for A. Strahan; T.
Cadell. . .and D. Prince, London, 1787.  Full calf, showing wear
but quite a fresh set. [43816 L16EL26E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=43816   $ 1,250.00

8.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. The Fourth 
Edition. Four Volumes. Eller 6.  Printed for John Exshaw [and others] [imprint 
varies], Dublin, 1771. Contemporary sheep, worn, some joints cracked, some 
paper repairs and foxing, still a good unrestored set; with the two folding 
plates. [70987 XY] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70987 
$ 2,500.00

The first complete Irish edition to be published in a single year
of the most famous of all English law books, every set located in
ESTC either incomplete (without the plates or lacking one or more
volumes) or unverified.

9.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. The Fourth [sic] 
Edition. Eller 6.  Printed for John Exshaw [and others; imprint varies], 
Dublin, 1771.  Contemporary calf, rubbed, a few repairs, new labels; a sound 
set. [60114 TAS] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=60114 $ 
1,500.00

A very early Dublin-printed, pirated edition (the second) of
Blackstone's classic work, appearing during the same year as the
first American edition, and the first in Ireland in which all four
volumes were published during the same year.


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