Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books With an Analysis.

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Philadelphia Printing of Chitty's Blackstone Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780). Chitty, Joseph (1776-1841), Principal Editor. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books; With an Analysis of the Work. In Two Volumes, From the Nineteenth London Edition. With a Life of the Author, And Notes, By Christian, Chitty, Lee, Hovenden, And Ryland;, And Also References to American Cases, By a Member of the New York Bar. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1886. 2 volumes. xxxix, 811; xx, 739 pp. Blackstone's paging retained in margin. Table of Consanguinity. Fold-out Table of Descents. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary sheep, blind frames to boards, raised bands and red and black lettering pieces to spines, early owner label (W.H. Landes) to that of Volume I. Worn, front board of Volume I detached, other boards beginning to separate but secure. Light toning to interiors, offsetting to margins of preliminaries and final leaves of text blocks, small tear and minor edgewear to Table of Descents, early owner signatures, W.H. Landes and Gordon Mountjoy Buck, to front free endpapers. $250. * Chitty's influential edition of the Commentaries was first published in London in 1826. He did not produce later editions; publishers reissued Chitty's work with sets of notes from other editors. The 1886 Lippincott edition is a reissue the edition originally issued in New York by W.E. Dean in 1832. William Henry Landes (1858-1931) was a lawyer and politician who served ten years as mayor of Staunton, Virginia and briefly as a member of the Virginia Senate. A graduate of the University of Virginia and it law school, Gordon Mountjoy Buck (1875-1970) was a prominent New York lawyer known for his work for railroads, most notably the Southern Pacific. Not in Eller. Laeuchli, A Bibliographical Catalog of William Blackstone 226.

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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books With an Analysis.
Author
Blackstone, Sir William; Chitty, Joseph, et al.
Publication year
1886
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