Commentaries on the laws of England
By: by William Blackstone ...
Contributors: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress); William Blackstone Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The third edition.
Publisher: Printed at the Clarendon Press
Published: 1768
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Subjects: Law -- Great Britain.; Law -- Great Britain -- History.
Notes: Eller 4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published in 1765; no third edition of v. 3-4 was published.
Vol. 1: [4], iv, [4], 485, [1] p.; v. 2: [8], 520, xix, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 3: [8], 455, [1], xxvii, [1] p.; v. 4: [8], 436, vii, [41] p.
"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.
LC copy has label inside front covers for: Carswell Company Limited, Publishers of law books, printer and bookbinders, Toronto.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Of the rights of persons; title: v. 2. Of the rights of things; title: v. 3. Of private wrongs; title: v. 4. Of public wrongs.