Author: Burke, Edmund
Title: A Discourse on the Study of the Law, read in the public schools at Oxford, Oct. 24, 1758. Octavo [the first of the reviews "of all the important books on law" which were written by Burke for the Annual Register between 1758 and 1765]
Description: London Annual Register 1758. Original seven pages, disbound, light browning, else well preserved, with good margins; pages 452-458. ¶ Burke's review of the first edition of Blackstone's "Discourse", praising it as "a solid, judicious, and elegant oration", reflecting their jointly held belief that the study of law should seek to achieve much more than a practical apprenticeship

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