first edition Contemporary full mottled calf. Gilt, flat spines, with green and red morocco labels, gilt-ruled covers, all edges gilt. Gilt tu
1774-76 · Brussels:
by Blackstone, William
Brussels: J.L. de Boubers 1774-76 First French edition translated from the fourth English edition (1770) by August Pierre Damiens de Gomicourt (1723-1790). This was the first translation of this work into a foreign language. . Contemporary full mottled calf. Gilt, flat spines, with green and red morocco labels, gilt-ruled covers, all edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Contemporary armorial bookplate (A.G. du Plessis), later armorial bookplate ("Lib. de la Morandière). . Six volumes, octavo. . Two folding tables in Volume III. Woodcut title-page vignettes, woodcut headbands. Some offsetting to first and last few leaves of each volume, one tiny wormhole in spine of Volume I. Still, a fine set, in a very attractive binding. OCLC locates fifteen copies, ten in the United States.
(Inventory #: 14275)