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AUSTIN, JOHN (1790-1859), Province of Jurisprudence Determined. [and] Lectures on Jurisprudence: Being the Sequel to "The Province of Jurisprudence Determined," to which are added Notes and Fragments. Now first published from the Original Manuscripts.
London: John Murray, 1861, 1863, 1863. 3 vols. 1st Edition. xcviii+[1]+338; [iv]+viii+486+[2]; [iv]+408pp. + 32 page Murray catalog dated Oct. 1866 inserted at the rear of the third volume. Publishers blind-blocked brown cloth with gilt-stamped spines and glazed brown endpapers. Hinges to the first volume cracked (the rear hinge severely), some chipping and fraying to the joints, crowns quite chipped, title-page rubber stamp and canceled bookplate to each volume of the Cheshunt College Library, still quite a decent set of a set in origianl fairly fragile Victorian cloth. Scarce. The foundation text for analytical English jurisprudence. The first volume of The Province of Jurisprudence appeared in 1832. being ten lectures compressed into six. These were his lectures delivred in the newly founded University of London (later University College), where he had been appointed professor of jurisprudence in 1826. "Interest in his lectures was revived when Sir Henry Maine lectured on jurisprudence and emphasized the value of Austin's examination of the meanings and uses of legal terms. In consequence Austin's widow in 1861 published a new edition of the Province and his Lectures on Jurisprudence . with a biographical sketch by herself. The Province and the Lectures subsequently exercised enormous influence on jurisprudence in England, though it is now known that Austin had been greatly influenced by Bentham, with whom he was very friendly. The importance of his work was the strict delimitation of the sphere of law and its distinction from that of morality, elaboration of the idea of law as a kind of command, and the close examination of the connotations of such common legal terms and ideas as right, duty, liberty, injury, punishment, rights in rem and rights in personam . [F]rom his day until recently the predominant approach of English jurisprudence has been that of analysis of legal terms and concpets" [Oxford Companion to Law, p. 96]. Weight: 5 pounds 12.0 ounces = 2.6 kg. Size: 9.2 x 5.8 x 4.8 inches = 23 x 14.5 x 12cm. Binding: HB.
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