William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century
By Wilfrid R. Prest (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) This is the first comprehensive account of the life and writings of William Blackstone, whose Commentaries on the Laws of England remains the most celebrated and influential text in the Anglo-American common-law tradition. Based on the widest possible range of archival, manuscript, and printed sources, it presents a … Continued