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Price: US$59.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1807. In 4 volumes, this listing is for Book One only. From the last London Edition, with the last corrections of the Author. Nice Clean copy ! Well-rubbed Leather covered boards ( top rear board tip shaved) , black floral border emboss. red + gold spine label. Front hinge leather cracked top to bottom. Pages have scattered light foxing. 6484
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Dark brown leather binding. 455, xxxv pp. Third volume only (of four-volume set). This work focuses on common law and is not only considered one of the leading works on the development of English law, but also a leading influence on the formation of American law. Famous for its use as the key to Benedict Arnold's book cipher. G, spine piece missing, foxing/stains throughout but especially at extremities. Binding tight and text readable.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Four volumes. 8vo. Foxed. Uncut. Deckle edged. Some of the original boards and label bindings are preserved. Our low price allows room for the fastidious collector who might want to have these restored, or the set rebound (as was originally intended). Blackstone, at first unsuccessful in legal practice, he turned to scholarship and teaching. He became (1758) the first Vinerian professor of law at Oxford, where he inaugurated courses in English law. British universities had previously confined themselves to the study of Roman law. Blackstone published his lectures as Commentaries on the Laws of England, a work that to order and lucidity the formless bulk of English law. It ranks with the achievements of Sir Edward Coke and Sir Matthew Hale, Blackstone's great predecessors. Blackstone's Commentaries, written in an urbane, dignified, and clear style, is regarded as the most thorough treatment of the whole of English law ever produced by one man. It demonstrated that English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Blackstone's book exerted tremendous influence on the legal profession and on the teaching of law in England and in the United States. In trying to comprehend the whole of British law and present it logically Blackstone divided the law into four volumes and themes. Book I covered the "Rights of Persons," a sweeping examination of British government, the clergy, the royal family, marriage, children, corporations and the "absolute rights of individuals." Book II, on the "Rights of Things," should more properly have been called the Rights that people have in Things. It begins with the observation that "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property." In hundreds of pages of arcane analysis he then disproves the point. Book III covers "Private Wrongs," today known as torts. Book IV covers "Public Wrongs," crimes and punishment, including offenses against God and religion. Though we do not think it is of great consequence, this very interesting and unusual set apparently lacks the frontis and folding table of Descents and Consanguinity found in some copies. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fifth US edition, first to be printed in the [then] District of Maine. An important early Maine and law imprint. In original [presumed] bindings. Overall, a very handsome set. Light shelf/edge wear, ownership signatures at ffep, two endpages loose and all evenly toned (endpages clearly an inferior paper stock vs bright, clean textblocks, tips through, light rubbing at hinges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Full brown leather boards, black ink spine label, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements, frontispiece, fold-out plate. 8vo. Various pag. Illus. (b/w plates). Appendix. Notes. Index(es). Very Good [Textblock Very Good+]
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.