The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
by: John Austin

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full black leather. all edges gilt, ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, raised bands. A facsimile reprint of the 1832 edition published by John Murray. "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 as right, duty, liberty, injury [and] punishment.": Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law 96. Former owner's name plate is pasted in the front inside cover. Clean, bright copy.