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BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM, Sir. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 2 engraved tables of consanguinity and descents in Volume 2. 4 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf, Volumes 1, 2, and 4 neatly rebacked retaining original morocco lettering pieces, Volume 3 front joint cracked, cords intact; varying foxing, most noticeably at beginning and end of each volume. Early 19th-century armorial bookplates of John Rogers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765-66-68-69
first edition of Blackstone's magnum opus, "the most celebrated, widely circulated, and influential law book ever published in the English language" (ODNB). Without the 8-page supplement of addenda and corrigenda, often lacking. Eller 1; Printing and the Mind of Man 212; Rothschild 407.
