Tracts, Chiefly Relating to the Antiquities and Laws of England

William Blackstone

Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1771

[Blackstone's Works on Common Law]  4to.  Bound in contemporary polished, tan calf.  Rebacked, with renewed spine leather, original red and black morocco spine labels laid down.  Minor rubbing, scratches to boards and extremities.  Marbled endpapers.  Scattered spotting.  Contemporary armorial bookplate.  Collated: (iv), 353, (iii), lxxx, (19), (1) pp.  Engraved table. Refs: ESTC T57088.  Eller, The William Blackstoine Collection in the Yale Law Library 240.  Laeuchli, A Bibliographical Catalog of William Blackstone 553.  Includes Lawbook Exchange catalog listing.  Third and final edition. First published in 1762, this edition contains Blackstone's final revisions. Includes 6 rare tracts, each with a divisional title page.  Contents:I. An analysis of the laws of England; II. An essay on collateral consanguinity; III. Considerations on copyholders; IV. Observations on the Oxford Press; V. Introduction to the Great charter, etc; VI. Magna carta, Carta de foresta, etc