A"Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic Blackstone bound with Anstey, John. The Pleader"s Guide, A Didactic Poem by John Surrebutter; American edition by James L. High. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. Chicago: Callaghan & Cockcroft, 1870. xii, 376, 57, 65 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-104-6. Cloth. $29.95. The Comic Blackstone is a whimsical farce patterned after the Commentaries" divisions of persons, property, private and public wrongs. Not in Eller, The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library. The Pleader"s Guide is a humorous poem in two parts that originally appeared in London in 1796. This edition is a reprint of an uncommon American edition that included both titles in one book.