{"product_id":"commentaries-on-the-laws-of-england-volume-1-a-facsimile-of-the-first-edition-of-1765-1769","title":"Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 1 A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769","description":"Sir William Blackstone's \u003ci\u003eCommentaries on the Laws of England\u003c\/i\u003e (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, \u003ci\u003eCommentaries on the Laws of England\u003c\/i\u003e is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In his introduction to this first volume, \u003ci\u003eOf the Rights of Persons\u003c\/i\u003e, Stanley N. Katz presents a brief history of Blackstone's academic and legal career and his purposes in writing the \u003ci\u003eCommentaries\u003c\/i\u003e. Katz discusses Blackstone's treatment of the structure of the English legal system, his attempts to justify it as the best form of government, and some of the problems he encountered in doing so.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48105953427711,"sku":"*R0033651*","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/12782093482268.jpg?v=1769535657","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/commentaries-on-the-laws-of-england-volume-1-a-facsimile-of-the-first-edition-of-1765-1769","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}