Commentaries on the laws of England : in four books
Print Book, English, 1775
The seventh edition View all formats and editions
At the Clarendon Press, printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince, Oxford, 1775
History
4 v., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : port., geneal. tables ; 21 cm. (8vo)
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V. 1. Of the rights of persons
v. 2. Of the rights of things
v. 3. Of private wrongs
v. 4. Of public wrongs
Originally published in Oxford, 1765
Vol. 1: [4], ii, [6], 485, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [8], 520, xix, [1] p.; v. 3: [8], 455, [1], xxvii, [1] p.; v. 4: [8], 443, [1], vii, [53] p
Frontispiece portrait (v. 1) of William Blackstone; text under portrait: Painted by T. Gainsborough 1774, Engraved by J. Hall 1775
"The following sheets contain the substance of a course of lectures on the laws of England, which were read by the author in the University of Oxford. His original plan took it's rise in the year 1753"--Preface