THE AMERICAN BLACKSTONE
Commentaries on American Law.
New York: O. Halsted, 1832.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
Second edition. xvi, [1]-559; 6547; 515; 574pp. 4 vols. 8vo. THE AMERICAN BLACKSTONE. Contemporary sheep, rubbed and scuffed, spine labels renewed. With the signature of New York Attorney Charles B. Moore on the title-page of each volume dated May 1833. Early newspaper clippings on endpapers of Vol. I about Kent's death. Cohen 5398. Larned 2761. Marvin 437-438.
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A landmark in American and International legal commentary, the first edition of Kent's classic was issued in four volumes from 1826 to 1830. This second edition is also very uncommon. The work, notes the DNB, “still remains the foremost American institutional legal treatise.”.