[Rarebooks] FS: Blackstone's COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, 1791

[Charles Agvent]

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BLACKSTONE, William. COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN FOUR BOOKS. 
London: A Strahan and W. Woodfall, 1791. Eleventh Edition. Four octavo 
(5-3/8" x 8-3/8") volumes bound in recent half brown morocco and marbled 
boards with gilt-lettered contrasting black and maroon morocco spine 
labels and new endpapers. Portrait frontispiece of Blackstone and a 
large folding chart. This edition contains the last corrections by 
Blackstone. Occasional light browning, but generally quite clean. A Fine 
set, attractively bound.

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."         
$1,500.00

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