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Price: US$186.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Demy 8vo, [viii], 520, xix; [viii], 455, xxvii; vi, 436, [vii, [44 - Index] p. Contemporary brown full calf, five raised bands, gilt on red and green lettering pieces. The endpapers are not stuck down to the boards thus the narrow calf turn-ins have left brown edges to all the endpapers, one millimeter of erosion to the top of the backstrip of Volume IV otherwise a near fine, clean with sound hinges, set of three, lacking Volume I. With the two multi-folding tables of Consanguinity and Descents in Volume II. Fifth edition.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Blackstone, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Dublin, 1773. 4 Volumes. , 1773.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Dublin, 1773. Eller 8. Laeuchli 11. The "Fifth" Dublin Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books. Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw, Henry Saunders, John Williams, and David Hay, 1773. Four volumes. Copperplate "Table of Consanguinity" and folding "Table of Descents." Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Contemporary calf, lettering pieces and gilt fillets to spines, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing, some light scuffing and a few nicks and minor stains to boards, corners bumped, joints of Volume 2, rear joint of Volume 4 and front hinge of Volume 1 starting. Moderate toning to text, light foxing in a few places in each volume, Leaf o4 in Volume 2 (pp. 199-202 partially detached and lightly edgeworn, armorial bookplates of Henry Bruen to front pastedown of each volume. An attractive copy. $2,500. * This pirated Dublin edition, designated the "Fifth Edition," follows the text of the fourth Oxford edition, 1770. Bruen [1741-1795], an Irish politician, was a Member of Ireland's Parliament for Jamestown from 1783 to 1790 and Carlow County from 1790 to 1795. Eller, The William Blackstone Collection at Yale University 8. Laeuchli, A Bibliographical Catalog of William Blackstone 11.
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.