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050 00 $aKD660$b.B52 1778
051 $aKD660$b.B52 1778 Copy 2$cTwo names in ink on t.p. (v. 1-4): Alex. Matheson and Will. Matheson.
100 1 $aBlackstone, William,$cSir,$d1723-1780.
245 10 $aCommentaries on the laws of England :$bin four books /$cby William Blackstone ...
250 $aThe eighth edition.
260 $aOxford :$bAt the Clarendon Press, printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince,$c1778.
300 $a4 v., [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) :$bport., geneal. tables ;$c22 cm. (8vo)
500 $aOriginally published in Oxford, 1765; this 1778 is the first to have the author's Postscript, p. [7] (second sequence) in v. 1.
500 $aVol. 1: [6], ii, [8], 485, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [8], 520, xix, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 3: [8], 455, [1], xxvii, [1] p.; v. 4: [8], 443 [i.e. 445], [1], vii, [53] p.
500 $aPage 235*-236* inserted between p. 236-237 (v. 4).
500 $aFrontispiece portrait (v. 1) of William Blackstone has text below portrait: "Painted by T. Gainsborough 1774. Engrav'd by Jn. Hall 1777. Publish'd ... Jany 1, 1778."
510 4 $aEller$c12
500 $a"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"--Pref.
505 0 $av. 1. Of the rights of persons -- v. 2. Of the rights of things -- v. 3. Of private wrongs -- v. 4. Of public wrongs.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
500 $aLC copy imperfect; lacks v. 2-4.$5DLC
650 0 $aLaw$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aLaw$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
710 2 $aJohn Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
710 2 $aWilliam Blackstone Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC