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First Edition. ISBN-13: 9781584779063; ISBN-10: 1584779063. Blackstone, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books. Originally published: Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1771, 1772, 1773. 5 Vols. viii, 485; x, 520, xix; ix, 456, xxviii; xxx, 436, [xlvii]; [120], xii, 155 pp. Reprinted 2009, 2019 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779063; ISBN-10: 1584779063. 5 Volumes including appendix volume, 2,348 pp. Hardcover. New. $495. * Reprint of first American edition. This is both a highly significant edition for American lawyers and a landmark in the history of American publishing. Volume I contains advertisements and a prospectus for this edition (addressed "To the American World"); Volume IV has a twenty-two-page subscriber list that includes John Adams, John Jay and many other leaders of colonial America (including Caribbean colonies). Volume V is unique to the Bell edition. Entitled An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries, it is adapted from two volumes of Blackstone criticism published in London in 1770 and 1771. It was originally published in 1772. Our edition offers the 1773 reissue of that work, which is identical to the 1772 edition. Our reprint edition not in Laeuchli, A Bibliographical Catalogue of William Blackstone. …

America: Robert Bell, 1773. First edition. Religious Liberty and Constitutional Dissent in Revolutionary-Era America, with a Bookplate Engraved by Nathaniel Hurd Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804); Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780); Furneaux, Philip (1726-1783); et al. An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on Some Paragraphs in the Fourth Volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, Relating to the Dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The Case of the Late Election of the County or Middlesex Considered on the Principles of the Constitution and the Authorities of Law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone Concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, And Some Positions Relative to Religious Liberty, in his Celebrated Commentaries on the Laws of England. VI. Authentic Copies of the Argument of the Late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, And of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the Cause Between the City of London and the Dissenters. America: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, at the Late Union-Library, In Third-Street, Philadelphia, 1773. Second American edition. Octavo (9-1/2" x 6"). [iv], iv, 119, xii, 155 pp. Complete with general title page and five divisional title pages, all dated 1773. Final unnumbered page contains Bell's advertisement for Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society and a prospectus for a quarto second edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. Page 123 misnumbered 113, as issued. Contemporary American sheep, heavily rubbed and scuffed, joints and extremities worn, old rebacking in brown cloth, manuscript spine title "Remarks," with "Priestley" below and early library shelf numbers at foot. Moderate toning, occasional light foxing and faint marginal dampstaining. Text block sound. Armorial bookplate of John C. Williams, engraved and signed by Nathaniel Hurd, to front pastedown, with later pencil identification of the engraver. $1,250. An important collection of essays on religious liberty, freedom of conscience and constitutional rights, printed by Robert Bell in Philadelphia in 1773. Its imprint identifies the place of publication simply as "America," an unusual and evocative designation. America: Robert Bell, 1773. First edition. (illustrator).…

America: Robert Bell, 1772 [-73]. The "Palladium of Conscience": Robert Bell's Colonial American Collection on Religious Liberty and Constitutional Rights Priestley, Joseph [1733-1804]. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Furneaux, Philip [1726-1783]. Foster, Sir Michael [1689-1763]. Murray, William, Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793)]. An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on Some Paragraphs in the Fourth Volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, Relating to the Dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The Case of the Late Election of the County of Middlesex Considered on the Principles of the Constitution and the Authorities of Law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone Concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, And Some Positions Relative to Religious Liberty, in his Celebrated Commentaries on the Laws of England. VI. Authentic Copies of the Argument of the Late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, And of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the Cause Between the City of London and the Dissenters. America: Printed for the Subscribers, By Robert Bell, Philadelphia, 1772 [-1773]. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). [iv], iv, [5]-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] pp. Each section preceded by divisional title page, first section also preceded by general title page, title page of Letters to the Honourable Mr. Justice Blackstone dated 1773. Includes one-page publisher advertisement for Bell's 1773 printing of Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society and a subscription for a second American edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. Period-style quarter calf over cloth, raised bands, lettering piece and blind ornaments to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, small recent owner bookplate to front free endpaper. Moderate toning, occasional light foxing, faint dampstaining to margins in places. Early owner verse inscription of William Raisbeck dated 1785 to front endleaf, early owner signatures, of Robert P. Lee (possibly Robert Perine Lee (1766-c.1845) and Jonathan Livingston, to title page, another Livingston signature to following leaf, annotations, presumably by Livingston, to a few leaves. America: Robert Bell, 1772 [-73]. (illustrator). …