[Rarebooks] FS: A Beautiful Set of Blackstone's COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, 1766-1769

[Charles Agvent]

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.

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." $6,500.00

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