Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Commentaries on the laws of England. In four books. By Sir William Blackstone. Reprinted from the British copy, page for page with the last edition.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.240
7890.183
Identifier
ark:/88435/3r075454f
Publisher
Philadelphia, Printed for the subscribers by Robert Bell, 1771-1772.
Language
English
Date Created
1771-1772
Extent
4 v., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : geneal. tables (engraving) ; 24 cm.
Provenance
Princeton copy 2 Signature of Charles Ridgely is on the title page of vol. 4. Ridgely was a subscriber to this edition.
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on front free endpaper 'James Congdon's Charlestown, Mass. 1776.'
Princeton copy 1 has 1875 mss. bill of sale laid in at front.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W30416
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law, 5312
Eller 80
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
"This is the first American edition; reprinted line for line from the fourth Oxford edition, 1770"--Eller, C.S. The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library, 1938.
Imprint date in v. 4 incorrectly printed as: DCCLXXII.
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy is vol. 1 only.
"Names of the subscribers": v. 4, p. [1]-[22].
Ex copy has tipped onto verso of front free endpaper is broadside "To the sons of science in America ..." [Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1773] (Evans 12671).

Discovery Information

Subject
Law—Great Britain

Physical Characteristics

File Count
525

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c020d079-053e-477b-a966-208b53860137/manifest