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BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM, Sir. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 2 engraved tables of consanguinity and descents in Volume 2. [4], iv, [4], 485, [1]; [8], 520, xix, [1]; [8], 455, [1], xxvii, [1]; [8], 436, vii, [76] pages. 4 volumes. 4to, 275x207 mm, contemporary calf, spines attractively gilt with red and green morocco lettering pieces, few spine ends unobtrusively restored; light foxing and old scored signature on titles, minor worming in blank margins at beginning and end of Volume 2. handsome set. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1766-68-68-69
Mixed set of Blackstone's magnum opus, "the most celebrated, widely circulated, and influential law book ever published in the English language" (ODNB): second edition of the first volume, third edition of the second, and first edition of the third and fourth. Eller 2, 4, 1; Printing and the Mind of Man 212; Rothschild 407.
