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d
o.
5. v.
8
vo.
by Tucker.
1815 Catalogue, page 74. no. 19, Blackstone’s Commentaries, by Tucker, 5 v 8vo.
BLACKSTONE,
Sir William--
TUCKER, St. George.
Blackstone’s Commentaries: with notes of reference, to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States; and
of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In
five volumes. With an appendix to each volume, containing short tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a connected view
of the Laws of Virginia, as a Member of the Federal Union. By St. George Tucker, Professor of Law, in the University of William and Mary, and one of the Judges of the General Court in Virginia.
Philadelphia: Published by
William Young Birch, and
Abraham Small,
Robert Carr, Printer,
1803.
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5 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 304 leaves; vol. II, 300 leaves, the last a blank; vol. III, 375 leaves, 4 engraved plates, 3 of them
folded; vol. IV, 323 leaves; vol. V, 330 leaves; collates in fours; printer’s imprint at the end of each volume.
Rebound in buckram by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson in each volume. Manuscript notes in vol. III are not by Jefferson. In vol. V one leaf, sig. 4Z
4, (the first leaf of the Appendix, pp. 3, 4) has been torn away.
The appendices contain full accounts of the Constitution and laws of Virginia, with frequent references to the
Notes on the State of Virginia
, with Tucker’s comments on statements made by Jefferson in that work.
This edition is the one recommended by Jefferson on his reading lists; see the letter to John Minor written in August, 1814.
St. George Tucker, 1752-1827, a native of Bermuda, emigrated to Virginia in his late teens. He married the widow of John Randolph. This is
his first edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries.
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Wooddeson’s lectures on the laws of England.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 80. no. 20, as above, with reading
Woodeson’s.
WOODDESON,
Richard.
A Systematical view of the Laws of England; as treated of in a course of Vinerian Lectures, read at Oxford, during a series
of years, commencing in Michealmas [sic] Term, 1777. By Richard Wooddeson, D.C.L. Vinerian Professor, and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Counsel to that University . . . Vol. I [-III].
Dublin: Printed for
E. Lynch,
P. Wogan,
P. Byrne [and others],
mdccxcii
,
mdccxciv
. [1792, 4]
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First Edition. 3 vol. 8vo. 168, 206 and 204 leaves in fours.
Calf; initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in the three volumes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
In the letter of advice to Dabney Terrell on his law studies, February 26, 1821, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . the Student may take up Blackstone’s Commentaries . . . Here too Woodeson should be read, as supplementary to Blackstone,
under heads too shortly treated by him . . .
”
Richard Wooddeson, 1745-1822, English jurist, Vinerian Professor at Oxford.
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