No there is not. I looked for exactly the same thing last year, and found
only the links to which you refer below. And I looked very thoroughly !!
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Mary Whisner wrote:-
>One of our professors asked us if there is an electronic version of
>Blackstone's Commentaries.
>
>We found the following sites which have selections, but did not find the
>whole thing:
>
>(1) www.lawmart.com(-click on Digital Library, then click on Major
>Treatises and then on "Commentaries on the Laws of England").
>
>(2) www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/oxford/bstone49.html
>
>(3) www.constitution.org/tb/tb-0000.htm (Tucker's Blackstone)
>
>The professor replied: "I checked out these sites, and while they have
>some useful information, their excerpts from Blackstone are very limited.
>Is it possible that there are other sources?"
>
>Ever obliging, we did some more checking. We searched the Avalon Project
>at Yale. We checked LC's American Memory project. We called LEXIS-NEXIS
>and WESTLAW. (One of the customer service reps laughed at the request, but
>you never know. WESTLAW loaded the Federalist Papers for the bicentennial
>of the Constitution, after -- they *could* have loaded Blackstone for some
>reason.) We searched newspapers and legal news on LEXIS-NEXIS to see
>whether there was a story about someone digitizing this classic work. We
>surfed the 'Net some more.
>
>We have not found what the professor seeks. So now we ask you in
>law-lib-land: is anyone aware of an electronic version of Blackstone's
>Commentaries? Do you even know of someone who is thinking of digitizing
>the set?
>
>This question was posed on law-lib in June 1999. At that time, the only
>response I saw was a reference to a catalog of Blackstone editions
>included in a microfilm set ("The Yale Law Library Blackstone Collection"
>by Law Library Microform Consortium, at http://www.llmc.com/catalog8.htm).
>That's not what the professor wants: he'd like Blackstone in full text.
>
>Thank you for your assistance.
>__________________________________________________________
>Mary Whisner, Assistant Librarian for Reference Services
>Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
>whisner@u.washington.edu library's website: http://lib.law.washington.edu
>
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