[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Blackstone's COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, the Earl of Bedford's copy
Charles Agvent
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Mon Dec 3 10:41:31 EST 2012
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 leather 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." (#015337)
$6,500.00
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