Books by William Blackstone

Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1867 Leather bound Later edition 404; 468pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Fair. The front cover is absent. What remains of the leather binding is heavily rubbed. The first couple of pages are detached, but present. There are very subtle barely perceptible moisture stains occasionally in the margins of the pages. First volume only. With the fold out at p. 193 of Book Two.... more information

1818. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book the Second. Boston: Published by T.B. Wait and Sons [et al.], 1818. Volume II of a two-volume set. 12mo. (7" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary sheep. lind fillets to boards, lettering piece and blind filest to spine. Some shelfwear, early bookplate to front pastedown, light foxing to text. ... more information

2008. Field, Barron. Blackstone, Sir William. An Analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England in a Series of Questions, To Which the Student is to Frame his Own Answers, by Reading that Work. New York: Published by Stephen Gould, 1822. ix, 286, [2] pp. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778998; ISBN-10: 1584778997. Hardcover. New. * Reprint of the first American edition, from the second London edition (1817). First published in 1811, Field's Analysis is bot... more information

Boston: T.B. Wait and Sons, et al, 1818. Leather. 442 pp, vi, + Index, Index to Editor's Notes. "From the last London Edition. With the last corrections of the author; and with notes and additions by Edward Christian, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Isle of Ely, and the Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge." Leather cover has stamped rope-patterned rules front and back. Spine, chipped about 1/2" at head and less at heel, is ruled five times, with ... more information

1979. Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: A Facsimile of the First [English] Edition of 1765-1769. With Introductions by Stanley N. Katz; A.W. Brian Simpson; John H. Langbein and Thomas A. Green. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, [1979]. 4 Volumes. Paper. New. * Facsimile reprint of First English Edition printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Described by Stanley N. Katz in his scholarly introduction to volume one as "the most important legal treatise ever written in... more information

2007. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Lewis, William Draper, Editor. Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, With Notes Selected from the Editions of Archibold, Christian, Cole, Ridge, Chitty, Stewart, Kerr, And Others; And in Addition Notes and References To All Text Books and Decisions Wherein the Commentaries Have Cited and All the Statutes Modifying the Text. Philadelphia: Geo. T. Bisel Co., 1922. 4 Vols. 4 Vols. xxx, star-paged 485, 532, 428, 649 pp. Reprinted 2012 by The Lawbook Exchan... more information

Chicago & London: Univ. of Chicago Pres. [1979]. First edition thus, 4 vols., 8vo, orig. terracotta cloth, gilt lettering on spine; fine. With Introductions by Stanley N. Katz, A. W. Brian Simpson, John H. Langbein, and Thomas A. Green. ... more information

2007. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Lewis, William Draper, Editor. Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, With Notes Selected from the Editions of Archibold, Christian, Cole, Ridge, Chitty, Stewart, Kerr, And Others; And in Addition Notes and References To All Text Books and Decisions Wherein the Commentaries Have Cited and All the Statutes Modifying the Text. Philadelphia: Geo. T. Bisel Co., 1922. 4 Vols. xxx, star-paged 485, 532, 428, 649 pp. Reprinted 2007, 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange... more information

2003. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. [Cooley, Thomas M., Editor]. Commentaries on the Laws of England; In Four Books. With A Copious Analysis of the Contents. And Notes with References to English and American Decisions and Statutes to Date Which Illustrate or Change the Law of the Text; Also, a Full Table of Abbreviations, and Some Considerations Regarding the Study of the Law. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1884. Four books, in 2 volumes. cxv, 644; xxvii, 629 pp. (Blackstone's paging retained in... more information

Philadelphia: Rees Welsh and Company. 1902. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Four volumes. Cloth hardbacks with spine labels, 2021 total pp., clean unmarked texts, Very Good copies, owner's blindstamp to the titlepages, some rubbing and soil to the covers of all four volumes, some wear to the spine-labels, inner hinges of the fourth volume strained. Digital images available upon request. ... more information

TOGETHER WITH A COPIOUS ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS. Chicago: Gallaghan and Co., 1884. 2 vols. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. one. Vol. 1: cxiv + 485 +524 pp. Vol. 2: xxvii + 471 + 531 pp. Hardcover. Large 8vo size. Institutional buckram with leather lettering labels. Some markings and notes in ink and pencil. Overall, quite good. Very good/No jacket issued. (Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply) (Insurance required to ship this item).... more information

1992. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765. Reprint edition. Buffalo: William S. Hein & Co., 1992. Four volumes. Quarto. Brown cloth, red gilt stamped lettering pieces. New. * Reprint of the first English edition, with the Supplement to the First Edition. The "excessively rare" (see Eller 1) Supplement contains additions and corrections to the first edition, which were later incorporated into the second. An att... more information

Birmingham, Alabama, Legal Classic Library, 1983., 1983. Facsimile of the Oxford 1765 first edition. 4to. Original full tan calf , spine with red and black gilt stamped morocco labels, cover double ruled in gilt, a.e.g., black silk bookmark; marbled endpapers. Fine. 4 volumes. Volume I - 473 pages + 8 page supplement. Volume II - 520 pages + 29 page appendix Volume III - 455 pages + 27 page appendix. Volume IV - 436 pages + 7 page appendix + 37 page index + 93 page analysis of Blackstone's analysis + 2 ... more information

Birmingham: Legal Classics Library, 1983. hardcover. fine. 4 volumes. 4to, handsomely bound in publisher's full tan leather, gilt spines, a.e.g. (Birmingham): Privately Printed by the Legal Classics Library, (1983). A fine set. Facsimile of the Oxford, 1765 edition. Blackstone "treats first of the rights commanded or recognised by the law, and secondly of the wrongs which it prohibits; rights again he divides...into rights of persons and rights of things (or property), and wrongs into private wro... more information

2009. Blackstone, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1771. 5 Vols. viii, 485; x, 520, xix; ix, 456, xxviii; xxx, 436, [xlvii]; [120], xii, 155 pp. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779063; ISBN-10: 1584779063. 5 Volumes and appendix volume, 2,348 pp. Hardcover. New. * Reprint of first American edition. This is both a highly significant edition for American lawyers and a landmark in the history of American publishing. Volume... more information

Portland: Printed and Published by Thomas B. Wait, & Co., 1807. Original publisher's paper-backed light-blue boards, paper labels An early American edition (the fifth), a completely unsophisticated, unrestored set in its original American publisher's binding, bottom and foredges untrimmed, cracking to the joints, bottom of one spine perished, labels slightly different ... more information

Philadelphia: Robert Bell. 1772. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, 1772. the 5th part (Furneaux) states Second Edition with Additions on its title page. 6 parts on one volume, 8vo (225 x 148 mm). Main title-page and separate title-pages for parts I-V, one-page advertisement at end. Early quarter sheep, paper covered boards, various paginations. Minor rubbing to binding, contents good to very good with some tanning and occasional stains to foredge, outermost leaves both front and... more information

1829. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Lee, Thomas, Editor (Volumes I and III). Ryland, Archer, Editor (Volume IV). Hovenden, John Eykyn, Editor (Volume II). Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books; With an Analysis of the Work. With the Last Corrections of the Author, And Copious Notes. London: S. Sweet, 1829. Four volumes. Table of consanguinity, folding table of descents. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary three-quarter calf over patterned cloth, raised bands and lettering pi... more information

1856. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books. With the Last Corrections of the Author, And Notes, From the twenty-First London Edition. With Copious Notes Explaining the Changes in the Law Effective by Decision or Statute Down to 1844. Vol. First by J.F. Hargrave, Vol. Second, by G. Sweet, Vol. Third, By R. Couch, Vol. Fourth, by W.N. Welsby. Together With Notes Adapting the Work to the American Student by John L. Wendell. New York: Harper & Brothers, 185... more information