Part one, the Commentary upon Littleton, was undoubtedly the most famous; copies were exported to the United States early in the colonial era, and the work was first printed in an American edition in 1812 – by this point the English version was in its sixteenth edition, and had been commented on itself by various later legal authorities.
On visiting Timbuktu in 2001, the South African president, Thabo Mbeki, was shown some of the manuscripts held at the Ahmed Baba Institute, named after the city's most famous scholar, including a copy of Islamic law dating to 1204.
Breslin: possibly the city's most famous living columnist, a copy boy at The Long Island Press in the 1940's, before he was 16. "I had to lie to get working papers," he said.
The most famous example is the copies of the custom Delman shoes that Queen Elizabeth II wore to her 1953 coronation.
In the catalog, Florent Heintz, Sotheby's remarkable expert who is a historian by training, dwelt on the fact that the most famous of all Roman copies of the Greek original is "The Athena Giustiniani," now in the Vatican Museum.
The most famous signature on the engrossed copy is that of John Hancock, who, as President of Congress, presumably signed first.
This portrait, which has long been Velázquez's most famous painting outside Spain, was copied innumerable times and won him immediate and lasting renown in Italy.
His seven novels each explored a different theme ranging from alcoholism, romance, schizophrenia and racism, but Salmon Fishing in the Yemen remained his most famous selling half a million copies.
In the United States last week, sales of "The Golden Notebook," her most famous novel, rose to 1,100 copies from fewer than 50 the week before, reported Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70percentt of all book sales.
Similarly, because the Roman excavations indicated that small bronze figures were prized by Romans and Greeks, such works became must-have items for Renaissance collectors, with skillfully detailed small bronze copies of the most famous antiquities topping the list.
