Commentaries on the laws of England.. [...] By William Blackstone, [...].
Sir William Blackstone (London 1723 - Wallingford 1780)
Category
Books
Date
Unknown
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3226260
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates. 4to. Vols. 3-4 only. Shelved and bound uniform with vols. 1-2 of 1766-1767 ed. (T57754). Provenance: inscribed on titlepage “Doughty’s book Trinity Ha[ll Cambridge] [i.e. Robert Doughty, b. circa 1722, of Hanworth Park Norfolk whose daughter married Rev. George William Lukin, Dean of Wells]. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Binding: eighteenth-century tree calf, gold-hatched on board edges; marbled endpapers, red and black title and volume spine labels
Makers and roles
Sir William Blackstone (London 1723 - Wallingford 1780), author