[Rarebooks] FS: Blackstone's Commentaries Attractively Bound, 1778

[Charles Agvent]

BLACKSTONE, William COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN FOUR BOOKS
Clarendon Press Oxford 1778 Eighth Edition.  Four octavo (5-1/8" x 8-1/8") 
volumes bound in modern half tan morocco and green cloth boards with 
gilt-lettered maroon morocco spine labels.  Portrait frontispiece and folding 
chart. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 212: "Until the COMMENTARIES, the ordinary 
Englishman had viewed the law as a vast, unintelligible and unfriendly machine; 
nothing but trouble, even danger, was to be expected from contact with it. 
Blackstone's great achievement was to popularize the law and the traditions 
which had influenced its formation."   Near Fine set, attractively bound.  $1500
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