Book Details
| Author: | Blackstone, Sir William: |
| Title: | Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books. |
| Published: | Dublin: John Exshaw, Henry Saunders, James Williams and David Hay, 1773. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 16 - Law |
| Description: | The Fifth edition. First Dublin Edition. Four volumes. By Sir William Blackstone, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Honourable Court of Common Pleas. These volumes contain the substance of a course of lectures on the Laws of England, which were read by the author in the University of Oxford who became the first Vinerian professor. Vol I - viii, 485 pp. Contents: Introduction, Of the Study, Nature, and Extent, of the Laws of England; Book I - Of the Rights of Persons. Vol II - 520 pp, 2 fold-out charts, xix (appendix). Contents Book II - Of the Rights of Things, Appendix. Vol III - 455 pp, xxvii (appendix). Contents Book III - Of Private Wrongs, Appendix. Book IV - 436 pp, vii (appendix) + Index. Contents Book IV - Of Public Wrongs. Set bound in matching full tan leather. Five raised bands on spines. Red spine labels with gilt lettering on Vols II -IV (missing from vol I). Spine labels with volume numbers and gilt decoration on vols II - IV (missing from vol I). Vol I - section of leather rubbed at bottom of spine. Corners bumped and rubbed. Front hinge cracking. Occasional short notes in pencil in text margins. Contents very clean and bright. Approx half of rear fep missing. Vol II - Top and bottom of spine lightly rubbed. Corners of front board much rubbed - leather lifting. Front hinge cracking. Some insect damage to small section at front edge from pp 47 - 66. Otherwise contents very clean.Vol III - Bottom of spine and corners rubbed. Edges of spine cracking at bottom for about 2 inches. Front hinge cracked. Small section of insect damage to top corner in margin from pp 343 onwards but not affecting text. Otherwise contents clean. Vol IV - Rubbing to top and bottom of spine and corners. Front hinge cracking. Contents very clean. Some scuffing to surface of boards of all volumes. Overall condition VG-. |
| Book Number: | #2217 |
| Price: | € 1,340.00 |
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