A set of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a>, fourth edition volumes of Commentaries on the Laws of England by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=william%20blackstone&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Blackstone</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>William Blackstone (English).</li><li>Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books.</li><li>London: At The Clarendon Press, 1770.</li><li>Square quarto.</li><li>Bound fine in contemporary full tan calf over cords, gilt lettered red morocco spine labels, with the 2 tables in volume 2 one folding, neat contemporary ownership signature of "S. Blackall" to the front pastedown of each volume.</li></ul> The most influential publication in the history of modern Anglo-American law. 'Since its first publication in 1765, Blackstone's Commentaries has exercised enormous influence over common law in England and elsewhere. 'Until the Commentaries, the ordinary Englishman had viewed the law as a vast, unintelligible and unfriendly machine. If the English constitution survived the troubles of the (nineteenth) century, it was because the law had gained a new popular respect, and this was due in part to the enormous success of Blackstone's work. He did for the English what the imperial publication of Roman law did for the people of Rome' (PMM).

Commentaries on the Laws of England

A first edition set of Blacksone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>William Blackstone (English).</li><li>Oxford:&nbsp;Printed at the Clarendon Press,&nbsp;1765-1766-1768-1769.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Without the 8-page supplement of addenda and corrigenda, often lacking.&nbsp;</li><li>With the Table of Consanguinity and the Table of Descents in volume 2, without the "Supplement to the First Edition," which is sometimes bound in.</li><li>Bound in contemporary calf, all volumes rebacked retaining original morocco lettering pieces, with early 19th-century armorial bookplates of John Rogers.</li></ul> One of the cornerstones of the Anglo-American legal system, and still regarded as the best general history of English law. In these lectures which he gave as the first Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford, Blackstone taught (as even his critic Bentham noted) “jurisprudence to speak the language of the scholar and gentleman.”

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