1954 ZLg

Copies examined

Curwen Press:

R18

Copies located

British Library:

Title page

[A]2^r

JOHN AUSTIN | [swelled rule] | THE PROVINCE | OF | JURISPRUDENCE | DETERMINED | and | THE USES OF THE STUDY | OF JURISPRUDENCE | with an Introduction | by | H. L. A. HART | Professor of Jurisprudence in the | University of Oxford | WEIDENFELD AND NICOLSON | 7 CORK STREET, LONDON W. 1.

Imprint

[A]2^v

Series

[A]1^v

LIBRARY OF IDEAS | EDITORS | Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire, | Richard Wollheim.

Collation

[A]⁸ B-Z 2A-2C⁸ 2D⁶.

Pagination

[i-vii] viii-xviii [xix] xx-xxi [xxii-xxv] xxvi-xxxi [xxxii, 1] 2-361 [362-5] 366-93 [394] 395-6.

Technical description

Crown 8^o: 7¼" × 4¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark ; 10(+1)pt. Imprint; casing, dark red buckram, spine gold-blocked: ‘AUSTIN | THE | PROVINCE OF | JURISPRUDENCE | DETERMINED | ETC. | LIBRARY | OF IDEAS’; printed dust-jacket.

Note

Austin was a professor in the new University of London; his important statement on jurisprudence and the clarification of positive law was first published in 1832.

See also

Austin, John, 1790–1859 ODNB
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909–1997 IMDb NPG ODNB
Hampshire, Stuart, 1914–2004 NPG ODNB
Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), 1907–1992 NPG ODNB
Imprint
Imprint, 10pt.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
Wollheim, Richard, 1923–2003 NPG ODNB

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 13/Sep/2018