Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books

by William Blackstone

$5,000 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1768-1770. First Editions of volumes 3 and 4. Fourth Editions of volumes 1 and 2. Full calf. Quartos. Over 2,000 pages in all. A striking quarto set of Blackstone’s Commentaries, preserved in their original 18th‑century bindings. This is the landmark work that rendered English law intelligible to the ordinary Englishman--doing for the

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