Blackstone's Type: Politics, Press Reform, and Publishing the Commentaries

Event details

Date
Time
12:00PM- 10:00PM
Location

Rare Book Room, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Lower Level 2

Open to
Yale Law School Community
Event contact
Kathryn James
kathryn.james@yale.edu
title page of Blackstone's Commentaries

Title-page, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765).  Blackstone Eller 1

Why was William Blackstone's Commentaries such a beautiful book? Stop by the Rare Book Room for a deep dive into the typography of the first editions of the Commentaries and what this reveals...

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Rare Books