The Gutenberg Project is the oldest - I think - library of public domain
electonic edition of literary works. They rely on a network of volunteers
to scan and proof texts. If they were to put Blackstone on their "Request"
list, what edition should be preferred? First? Last with author's
corrections?
Michael J. Lynch
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Whisner" <whisner@u.washington.edu>
To: "Law Library Discussion Group" <law-lib@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 7:05 PM
Subject: Blackstone in bits
>
> 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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>
>
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