New Commentaries on the Law of England (partly founded on Blackstone.) By Henry John Stephen, serjant at Law. 1-4.

STEPHEN, Henry John.

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London, Henry Butterworth, 1841-45. 8vo. xxv,+ (blank),+ 588,+ 12; xii,+ 622,+ 16; xi,+ (blank),+ 744,+ 16; x,+ 572,+ 16 pp. Original grey cloth, spines with worn original printed paper labels, volumes two rebacked with the original cloth pasted upon the new. Four volumes. From the library of Nils. S. von Koch at Augerum. First edition. Henry John Stephen (1787-1864) was an English legal writer and serjeant-at-law. His reworking of Blackstone?s Commentaries on the law of England is regarded as an entirely new work, and it was very succesful and appreciated and went through twenty editions up to 1938. An American editon was printed already in 1843?46. Nils S. von Koch (1801-81) was an influential Swedish liberal jurist and politician, married to Francis Eliza Lewin from England. He was very engaged in the social questions of his time like education, penalty laws and prisons, voting rights etc. Thanks to his wife he also had a broad English network.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Commentaries on the Law of England (partly founded on Blackstone.) By Henry John Stephen, serjant at Law. 1-4.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Hardcover / Hardback