Titles by Sir William Blackstone

1723 – 1780

Sir William Blackstone’s (1723-1780) four-volume Commentaries on the Laws of England assures him a place in history as one of the greatest scholars of English common law. Blackstone began his lectures on the common law in 1753. His Commentaries served as a primary instruction tool in England and America well into the nineteenth century and exerted a pronounced influence on the development of the American legal tradition.

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Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, 2 vols.

Sir William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, vol. 1

Sir William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, vol. 2

Sir William Blackstone

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