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• Author/Creator:À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856.
  
• Title:The comic Blackstone / by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank.
  
• Edition:New ed.
  
• Published/Created:London : Bradbury and Evans, 1857.
  
• Physical Description:xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: PR4000.A24 C66 1857
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in original printed paper wrappers. Publisher's advertisements on back cover.
  
• Notes:Engraved vignette on title page and cover.
  
• Format:Book
• Contents:Of the rights of persons -- Of real property -- Of private wrongs and their remedies -- Of public wrongs and their remedies.
  
• References:Eller 190
  
• Subjects:Blackstone, William, 1723-1780--Parodies, imitations, etc.
  Blackstone, William, 1723-1780. Commentaries on the laws of England.
  Law--Great Britain--Humor.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1857.
  Engraving--Specimens--1857.
  Scheuer, Gloria--Provenance.
  Bradbury and Evans--Publisher.
  
• Also listed under:Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill.