[Rarebooks] FS: Blackstone's Commentaries, 1766-1769

[Charles Agvent]

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   BLACKSTONE, William. COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN FOUR 
BOOKS. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1766-1769. First Edition. Second Edition 
of the first volume and First Edition of the other three volumes. Four 
quarto (8-1/2" x 11") volumes bound in contemporary sheep with the 
owner's coat of arms stamped on all covers, recently rebacked with new 
calf spines with gilt-lettered contrasting morocco spine labels. 
Illustrated with two plates, one folding. The Earl of Bedford_s copy 
with his arms on the covers and his Woburn Abbey bookplates dated 1873 
on the front pastedowns. Light, sporadic foxing. Some old staining to 
covers of two volumes. Near Fine set, attractively bound. $6,500.00	

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."

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