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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... Bibliography of the Commentaries. 1765 Vol. I. first published. Printed at the Clarendon Press. Succeeding editions of this volume were published in 1766, 1768, 1770. 1766 Vol. II. first published. Succeeding editions in 1767, 1768 and 1770. 1768 Vol. III. first published. 1769 Vol. IV. first published. All the foregoing are in quarto. 1771. First edition in octavo. Called on its title page the fourth edition. It is a Dublin reprint. 1773 Oxford, 8vo., 4 vols., sth edition. 1774 London, quarto, 4 vols., 6th edition. 1775 Oxford, 8vo., 4 vols., 7th edition. 1778 Oxford, 8vo., 4 vols., Sth edition. 1783 London, 8vo., 4 vol?., 9th edition. 1787 London, 8vo., 4 vols., 10th edition. 1791 London, 8vo., -i vols., nth edition. i793-95 London, 8vo., 4 vols., 12th edition. (This edition contains portraits of the judges.) 1800 London 8vo., (Notes by Christian), 4 vols., 13th edition. (1796. An edition at Dublin, 4 vols., 12 mo., called the 13th edition.) 1803 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 14th edition. (Notes by Christian.) 1809 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 15th edition. (Notes by Christian.) 1811 London, 4 vols., royal 8vo., 16th edition. (Notes by Christian and Archibald.) 1825 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 17th edition. (Notes by Coleridge.) 1826 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 18th edition. (Notes by Chitty. Often reprinted in America.) 1836 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 19th edition. (Notes by Christian, Chitty, Lee, Hovenden and Ryland, and references to American cases.) 1841-44 London 4 vols., 8vo., 20th edition. (Notes by James Stewart.) 1844 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 21st edition. Edited by four members of the English bar. Messrs. Hargrove, Sweet, Couch and Welsby. Reprinted in New York with notes by Wendell. This is said to be the last carefully edited English edition. In 1841...