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Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education both in England and America.

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.

Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First by Sir William Blackstone