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Law Tracts

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===by William Blackstone===
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|author=William Blackstone
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|year=1762
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone Sir William Blackstone], law reporter, judge, and Oxford's first [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinerian_Professor_of_English_Law Vinerian Professor of English Law], is perhaps best known as the author of ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]''.<ref>Wilfrid Prest, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2536 Blackstone, Sir William (1723–1780)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed June 19, 2013.</ref> ''Law Tracts'' predated that publication by three years and compiled for the first time several of Blackstone's earlier works. Texts reprinted in volume one include ''Essay on Collateral Consanguinity'', previously published in 1750, ''Considerations'' (1758), and ''Treatise on the Law of Descents'' (1759). Blackstone's work on the Magna Carta from 1759, ''The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, with Other Authentic Instruments: to which is Prefixed an Introductory Discourse, Containing the History of the Charters'', comprised the whole of volume two. According to one biographer, "[t]hese self-published reports were almost certainly intended as money-making ventures."<ref>Wilfrid Prest, ''William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 214.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
The evidence is not conclusive, although it would not be surprising that Wythe owned this title. The Brown Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the first collected edition (1762), noting that the copy in Thomas Jefferson's Library at the Library of Congress has the signature of ''D. Carr'' on the title page. Jefferson gave Dabney Carr, his nephew, many of Wythe's law books. This might be one of those titles. It is not listed on the [[Jefferson Inventory]], but the list of books given to Carr begins on a page with a fragment missing from the top.<ref>Endrina Tay & Jeremy Dibbell, "[http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-02/tales Reconstructing a Lost Library: George Wythe's 'Legacie' to President Thomas Jefferson]," ''Common-Place'', Tales from the Vault (January 2009).</ref> Perhaps ''Law Tracts'' was originally part of the list. Jefferson did sell the copy with Carr's signature to Congress, but how Jefferson gained or regained possession of the set is unknown. The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased a copy of the first collected edition.

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File:BlackstoneLawTracts1762KingJohnMedallionv2.jpg|<center>King John from volume two.</center>
File:BlackstoneLawTracts1762HenryIIIMedallionv2.jpg|<center>Henry III from volume two.</center>
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==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Two octavo volumes bound in recent hessian cloth with gilt lettering and rules to spines. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/78373 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=51FWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books]. 
Read volume two of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=EVJWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].
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Commentaries on the Laws of England

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===by William Blackstone===
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|commontitle=Blackstone's Commentaries
|vol=volume three
|author=William Blackstone
|publoc=Oxford
|publisher=Printed at the Clarendon Press
|year=1765-1769
|edition=First
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone William Blackstone]’s ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'' is considered “the most celebrated, widely circulated, and influential law book ever published in the English Language.”<ref>Wilfrid Prest, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2536 Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> Blackstone was born in 1723, the son of a prosperous silk mercer in Cheapside, London.<ref>I. G. Doolittle, "Sir William Blackstone And His Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–9): A Biographical Approach," ''Oxford Journal of Legal Studies'' 3, no. 1 (1983): 100.</ref> He was originally educated at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charterhouse_School Charterhouse School] and matriculated at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Oxford Pembroke College of Oxford] in 1738.<ref>Prest, “Blackstone, Sir William.”</ref> Two years into his time at Oxford, Blackstone was admitted as a candidate to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Civil_Law Bachelor in Civil Law] degree (BCL), and in 1741 was granted admission to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Temple Middle Temple].<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was unsatisfied with practicing law, however, and preferred instead the academic life.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In his teaching, Blackstone sought to:
<blockquote>lay down a general and comprehensive Plan of the Laws of England; to deduce their History and Antiquities; to select and illustrate their Leading Rules, and Fundamental Principles; to explain their Reason and Utility; and to compare them frequently with the Laws of Nature and of other Nations; without dwelling too minutely on the Niceties of Practice, or the more refined Distinctions of particular Cases.<ref>Ibid.</ref></blockquote>
[[File:BlackstoneCommentaries1765V2Table.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Table of Descents, volume two.</center>]]
In 1758, Blackstone was awarded the title of the first [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinerian_Professor_of_English_Law Vinerian chair of English law], a salaried position created in accordance with the will of the late Charles Viner.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Seven years later, he published the first edition of his ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'', his premier work.<ref>Ibid.</ref> “In some 2000 pages the common law's tortuous complexities were outlined in a manner at once authoritative, clear, elegant, and even engaging.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> The ''Commentaries'' were immediately a success. In their first printing in the colonies, 1400 copies were ordered for Philadelphia alone.<ref>William Bader, "Some Thoughts on Blackstone, Precedent and Originalism," ''Vermont Law Review'' 19, no. 5 (1995): 7.</ref> The ''Commentaries'' are ranked second only to the Bible in the amount of influence they played on the American founders.<ref>Ibid, 8.</ref> In the wake of his successful publication, Blackstone was appointed a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_Common_Pleas Justice of the Common Pleas] and served out his days on the bench until his death in 1780.<ref>Julian Waterman, "Mansfield and Blackstone's Commentaries," ''The University of Chicago Law Review'' 1, no. 4 (1934): 554.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[File:BlackstoneCommentariesLawsEnglandManuscriptNote.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Loose manuscript note from volume one.]]
Three of the Wythe Collection sources, Goodwin's Pamphlet<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings''] (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLV-XLVI.</ref>, [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 9 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref>and Brown's Bibliography,<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the first edition of Blackstone's ''Commentaries''. Goodwin cites Edwin Hemphill's dissertation, writing Hemphill "mentioned later law students' general use of Blackstone--so a copy was doubtless in Wythe's library."<ref>W. Edwin Hemphill, "George Wythe, the Colonial Briton: A Biographical Study of the Pre-Revolutionary Era in Virginia" (PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1937), 122.</ref> Dean cites William Clarkin's biography of Wythe which claims "Wythe used Blackstone as a text."<ref>William Clarkin, ''Serene Patriot: A Life of George Wythe'' (Albany, New York: Alan Publications, 1970), 154.</ref> Brown cites Wythe's arguments in Bolling v. Bolling.<ref>Bernard Schwartz, Barbara Wilcie Kern, and R. B. Bernstein, eds., ''Thomas Jefferson and Bolling v. Bolling: Law and the Legal Profession in Pres-Revolutionary America'' (San Marino, CA: The Huntingdon Library; New York: New York University School of Law, 1997), 147.</ref> Blackstone's ''Commentaries'' was also listed in Thomas Jefferson's [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Blackstone's commentaries. 1st & 4th vols. 4to.'' This is one of the titles Jefferson kept but it is unclear what happened to Wythe's volumes. Brown suggests Jefferson's entry refers to the first American edition (Philadelphia, 1771-1772), arguing that Wythe owned both the first English and first American editions. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing includes Blackstone's ''Commentaries'' but doesn't list a specific edition. The Wolf Law Library followed the recommendation of Goodwin, Dean, and Brown and purchased the first English edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in modern full calf. Spines feature five raised bands with gilt lettering and decorative elements. Titles on red morocco labels, volume numbers on green morocco labels. Each volume includes the signature of "Nicholson Calvert" on the title page. Volume one has loose page of manuscript notes. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/2076124 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
Read volume one of this title on [http://books.google.com/books?id=eK4WAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].

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M. Fabii Quinctiliani de Institutione Oratoria

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<big>'' M. Fabii Quinctiliani de Institutione Oratoria Libri Duodecim: Juxta Editionem, Quae, ad Fidem Trium Codicum Mss. & Octo Impressorum, Prodiit è Theatro Sheldoniano, Oxonii, An. 1693''</big>
===by Quintilian===
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|author=Quintilian
|lang=Latin
|publoc=Londoni
|publisher=Excudebat E.P. ; Impensis J. Nicholson
|year=1714
|pages=721
|desc=8vo (20 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintilian Marcus Fabius Quintilianus] was a famous Roman advocator and orator.<ref>John Roberts, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1894 Quintilian]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> He was born c. 35 CE at Calagurris in Spain, but his death date remains a mystery.<ref>M.C. Howatson, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-2593 Quinti'lian]" in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> Quintilian possibly received all his education in Rome,<ref>Ibid.</ref> where he became close with the orator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitius_Afer Domitius Afer].<ref>Roberts, "Quintilian."</ref> 
 
Quintilian wrote and published his one surviving work, ''Institutione Oratoria'', in twelve books, prior to 96 CE.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It describes the life and training of an orator from birth until maturity.<ref>Howatson, "Quinti'lian."</ref> Book 1 covers the importance of language as a foundation in early education, including the influence of nurses, parents, and slaves, as well as the superiority of schools over home education. Book 2 discusses the entrance of a boy into rhetoric school, the qualities of a good instructor, and guidelines for students working together. Books 3-7 discuss technicalities of oration in court speeches. Books 8-11 illuminate Quintilian’s views on oratory style and delivery. Perhaps most interesting is Book 10, where Quintilian gives his uncensored views of famous Greek and Latin writers. Book 12 sums up the discussion of an ideal orator by elucidating the personal and moral characteristics which make a ''vir bonus dicendi peritus'', ‘a good man who knows how to speak’ (Quintilian quoting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_the_elder Cato the Elder]).<ref>Ibid.</ref> Quintilian insisted on eloquence as a moral force, but was most concerned with good content to help shape sensible men.<ref>Roberts, "Quintilian."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Quinctilianus de instutitione Oratoriâ. 4to.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]" accessed on February 26,2014.</ref> on LibraryThing suggests the 1693 edition published at Oxford, noting "This is the only quarto edition in ESTC [''The English Short Title Catalog'']." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the London edition published in 1714 based on a copy at the University of Virginia which reportedly bears the inscription "Thomas J. Randolph, July 18th, 1826." The book has been rebound, making the signature no longer visible, however, Brown notes the size as quarto. ''The English Short Title Catalog'' describes the 1714 edition as an octavo. Nevertheless, the Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the London edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary leather. Front and back boards feature decorative tooling.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3679289 William & Mary's online catalog].
==References==
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C. Plinii Cæcilii Secvndi Epistolæ et Panegyricus

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===by Pliny the Younger===
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|author=Pliny the Younger
|editor=Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn
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|year=1653
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|pages=12, 404, [28]
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}}Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger Pliny the Younger] (23-79 C.E.), was a Roman naturalist, encyclopedist, and writer.<ref>''The Macquarie Dictionary'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/macqdict/pliny/0 Pliny]," accessed October 8, 2013.</ref> The nephew and adopted son of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder Pliny the Elder], he became a senator and governor of Bythnia in c.112. He is noted for his nine books of private letters, which were published between 100–109. Pliny's letters are charming pieces on diverse literary, social, and domestic themes that intimately illustrate public and private life in the heyday of the Roman Empire.<ref>''Britannica Concise Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/ebconcise/pliny_the_younger/0 Pliny the Younger]," accessed October 8, 2013.</ref> He is best known for his correspondence with the Emperor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan Trajan], which provides a unique record of the life of a Roman gentleman and the treatment Christians during this era.<ref>''Philip's Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/philipency/pliny_the_younger/0 Pliny (the Younger)]," accessed October 8, 2013.</ref>
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Plinii epistolae. 12mo.'' This was one of the books kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold a copy of the 1653 edition of ''C. Plinii Cæcilii Secvndi Epistolæ et Panegyricus'' to the Library of Congress in 1815. It still exists but has no identifiable Wythe markings.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:7 (no.4630).</ref> The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed October 8, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1653 edition, and the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.
[[File:PlinySecundiEpistolae1653Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front free endpaper.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full red leather with gilt lettering to spine. Includes the iscription "14HSO(?), Ex musoeo Alfred Villeford, 1850" on the front free endpaper. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3621158 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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Opera Omnia, Graece et Latine

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===by Lysias===
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|author=Lysias
|editor=Abbé Athanase Auger
|edition=Seventh impression; Fifth revised
|lang=Latin
|publoc=Paris
|publisher=Franc. Ambr. Didot L'ainé
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysias Lysias] was an Attic (Greek) orator born between 458 and 473 BCE and who died c.380 BCE.<ref>M.C. Howatson, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1865 Ly'sias]" in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> He was born to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalus#Historical_persons Cephalus], a wealthy Syracusan who had known [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles Pericles]. Pericles had convinced Cephalus to move to Athens as a ''metic'' (resident alien), so Lysias and his family grew up Greek with a very successful shield-making family business. The home of Lysias’ eldest brother [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemarchus Polemarchus] is the setting for Plato’s ''Republic'', where Polemarchus and Cephalus speak in the opening discussion.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Lysias and Polemarchus went to the panhellenic colony of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurii Thurii] in south Italy after their father’s death, where Lysias studied rhetoric.<ref>John Roberts, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1323 Lysias]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> They were expelled in 413 BCE as Athenian sympathizers, and returned to Athens.<ref>Howatson, "Ly'sias."</ref> The brothers were arrested in 403 by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Tyrants Thirty Tyrants] who alleged disaffection, but according to Lysias in his 12th speech, really wanted to confiscate their substantial property.<ref>Roberts, "Lysias."</ref> The Thirty Tyrants killed Polemarchus, but Lysias escaped and then supported the democratic counter-revolutionaries.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Lysias was quite poor at this point, so he turned to professional speech-writing and became very successful. As a ''metic'', he could not appear in court – therefore someone else had to deliver his speeches. However, he was able to deliver his first career speech "Against Eratosthenes" (speech 12) to a court of inquiry during the trial of the alleged murderer of his brother Polemarchus.<ref>Howatson, "Ly'sias."</ref> Also as a poet, Lysias composed over two-hundred poems. Only thirty-five survive, with only twenty-three complete. He was admired for the simplicity and precise, ordered nature of his language.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
This particular work is a first edition of “All the Works of Lysias, Greek and Latin” in two volumes. In the first volume, after a prologue and a comment on the work of critics, there is a table of contents covering both the first and second volumes. All of the speeches have the original Greek and translated Latin on parallel pages.
[[File:LysiasOperaOmnia1783Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscriptions, front free endpaper.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Lysiae opera omnia. Gr. Lat. 2.v. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on February 26, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing list the 1783 Paris edition of ''Lysiae Opera Omnia'' as the title and edition for Jefferson's entry. The Wolf Law Library found a copy of volume one of the 1783 edition and purchased it.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Set incomplete. Library lacks volume two. Volume one has marbled boards and full leather spine with 4 raised bands and gilt lettering. Includes the bookplate of "O.J." with the motto "Inter folia fructus" (fruit among the leaves) on the front pastedown. Signed "Hoffman" and "A. Michaelis, Bonn 1863" on the front free endpaper.

[https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/3679340 William & Mary's online catalog]

==References==
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Loukianou Samosateōs Hapanta

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<big>''Loukianou Samosateōs Hapanta = Luciani Samosatensis Opera''</big>
===by Lucian of Samosata===
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|author=Lucian of Samosata
|editor=Tiberius Hemsterhuis (volume one only) and Johan Frederik Reitz
|publoc=Amstelodami
|publisher=Sumptibus J. Wetstenii
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}}[[File:LucianLoukianouSamosaeosHapanta1743Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian Lucian] (125-180 CE) was a well-known ancient Greek rhetorician and satirist. As a child, Lucian was apprenticed to his uncle to begin a career as a sculptor.<ref>Henry W. L. Hime, ''Lucian, the Syrian Satirist'' (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900), 1.</ref> Their relationship was strained, and Lucian eventually left his home and his apprenticeship.<ref>Ibid., 2.</ref> He acquired a Greek literary education in western Asia Minor and applied it towards a career as a public speaker when he eventually returned to Greece.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/350566/Lucian Lucian]," accessed November 7, 2013.</ref> 
 
Though a successful rhetorician, Lucian became disenchanted with his career and gave up public speaking to write critical and satirical essays. These essays catapulted Lucian into fame and continue to serve as the basis for his lasting legacy.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Lucian satirized a wide variety of topics; He particularly favored satirizing the fantastical tales that were common during the era in which he lived. He even mocked the incredulous journey that the protagonist Odysseus experienced in Homer’s [[Odyssey of Homer|''Odyssey'']].<ref>Ibid.</ref> Lucian was also highly critical of the intellectual institutions of his time, and frequently satirized the hypocrisy of philosophers.<ref>Hime, ''Lucian, the Syrian Satirist'', 33.</ref> Not even the Greek gods were safe from Lucian’s mockery, and he repeatedly satirized the popular stories of the gods dealings with mortals.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "Lucian."</ref>
[[File:LucianLoukianouSamosaeosHapanta1743Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front free endpaper.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Luciani opera. Gr. Lat. Gesneri. sholiis et notis 3.v. 4to. Amst. 1743'' and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold the same title to the Library of Congress in 1815. The copy still exists and includes manuscript notes attributed to Wythe by E. Millicent Sowerby.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:1-2 [no.4617].</ref> Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing list the 1743 Amsterdam edition, and the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary vellum, raised bands, spines in seven panels with author label to second panel and volume label to third. Covers with double fillet border with an inner double fillet frame with a central arabesque in all blind. Includes the inscription "Johanni D. Coleridge, Pater amantissiumus Pred: Kal: Mai: MDCCCXXXVII" on the front free endpaper of volume one and the inscription "J. D. Coleridge, Eton Coll., May 1848" on the front free endpapers of volumes two through four. Set includes [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3639044 ''Index Verborum ac Phrasium Luciani, sive Lexicon Lucianeum''] by Carolus Conradus Reitzius (Trajecti ad Rhenum: H. Besseling, 1746) as volume four. Purchased from Temple Rare Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3621291 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:LucianLoukianouSamosaeosHapanta1743Dedication.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Illustration, dedication page, volume one.</center>]]
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Lud. Kusterus de Vero Usu Verborum Mediorum Eorumque Differentia a Verbis Activis & Passivis

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<big>''Lud. Kusterus de Vero Usu Verborum Mediorum Eorumque Differentia a Verbis Activis & Passivis.: Item Veteres Poetæ Citati ad P. Labbei De Ancipitum Græcarum Vocalium in Prioribus Syllabis Mensura Confirmandum Sententiam: sive Index Vocabulorum in Quibus Anceps Vocalis pro Longa Habenda Est''</big>
===by Ludolf Kuster===
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|commontitle=Lud. Kusterus De Vero Usu Verborum Mediorum
|author=Ludolf Küster
|editor=Edward Leedes
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludolph_K%C3%BCster Ludolf Küster] (1679-1716) was born in Blomberg in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalia Westphalia].<ref>Leonard Forster, “Henry Sike of Bremen (1669-1712) Regius Professor of Hebrew and Fellow of Trinity,” ''Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society'' 10, no. 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 1993): 264.</ref> Educated in Germany, and for a short time professor in Berlin, he lived most of his life in Holland.<ref>David Murray, “Some Letters of Robert Foulis,” ''The Scottish Historical Review'' 14, no. 54 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1917): 108.</ref> 
 
Küster, a classical scholar and critic, published the journal ''Bibliotheca Librorum Novorum'' under the pseudonym "Neocorus" from 1697 to 1699.<ref>Murray, "Some Letters of Robert Foulis," 108.</ref> By 1699, he “was already considered one of the most eminent Hellenists of his day.”<ref>Forster, "Henry Sike of Bremen," 264-65.</ref> While living for a brief time in England, Küster edited [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suda Suidas’s Lexicon] and published it in 1705 at Cambridge.<ref>Alexander Pope, ''Selected Poems; The Essay on Criticism; The Moral Essays; The Dunciad'' (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888), 207.</ref> In 1716 he "is said to have died of an ailment brought on by sitting constantly doubled up writing at a low table with three or four circles of books around him.”<ref>Murray, "Some Letters of Robert Foulis," 108</ref> 
 
Küster wrote ''Lud. Kusterus De Vero Usu Verborum Mediorum'' in Latin on the true use of words by means of active and passive verbs. He cited ancient poets who agreed with his view that Greek vowels in the first syllable were dangerous. The title includes a note that the index is necessary to deal with difficult vowels in the long term.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[Thomas Jefferson]] sent Wythe a copy enclosed with a [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 24 October 1794|letter]] dated October 24, 1794, "I inclose for your perusal a little treatise by Kuster on the use of the middle voice in Greek. I never saw a copy of it till I met with this, nor had ever heard of it. I presume therefore it may be new to you; & if it gives you half the pleasure it did me, mine will be doubled still." [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on February 24, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing includes the first edition (1750). The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> suggests either the first edition or the tenth (1793). The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the first edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf. Includes the nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, England on the front pastedown. Purchased from Christopher Edwards.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/3621293 William & Mary's online catalog].
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Œuvres Complettes d'Isocrate

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<big>''Oeuvres Complettes d'Isocrate, Auxquelles on a Joint Quelques Discours Analogues à Ceux de cet Orateur, Tirés de Platon, de Lysias, de Thucydide, de Xénophon, de Démosthene, d'Antiphon, de Gorgias, d'Antisthene & d'Alcidamas''</big>
===by Isocrates===
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|vol=volume one
|author=Isocrates
|trans=M. l'abbé Auger
|publoc=Paris
|publisher=chez De Bure, fils aîné, Théoph. Barrois jeune
|year=1781
|lang=French
|set=3
|desc=8vo (20 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocrates Isocrates] (436-338 BCE) was an ancient Greek rhetorician who made significant contributions to the field of rhetorical persuasion through his teachings and writings. He was born into a wealthy family and received an elite education.<ref>Thomas W. Benson and Michael H. Prosser, "Isocrates," in ''Readings in Classical Rhetoric'' (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1969), 43.</ref> However, following the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_War Peloponnesian War], his family lost their wealth and Isocrates was forced to find a way to support himself.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Isocrates began his career as a courtroom speech writer, and around 392 BCE he decided to set up his own rhetoric school.<ref>Ibid.</ref> During that time, Athens had no set curriculum for higher education. Isocrates spoke out against the predominant [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophism Sophist] method of education and was able to establish himself as an influential teacher.<ref>Ibid.</ref> His school did not focus on the political debate techniques that were central to the Sophist approach to education; instead, the school focused on oratory studies, composition, history, citizenship, culture, and morality.<ref>Patricia P. Matsen, "Isocrates Against the SophistsTranslated by George Norlin" in ''Readings From Classical Rhetoric'' (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), 43.</ref> It was Isocrates' approach to education that formed the basis for the modern conception of Liberal Arts.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Isocrates educated hundreds of pupils over his lifetime. The most notable were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timotheus_%28general%29 Timotheus,] the Athenian general, prominent in Athens’ history between 378 and 355 BCE; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicocles_%28Salamis%29 Nicocles,] the ruler of Salamis in Cyprus; and the two greatest Greek historians of the 4th century, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephorus Ephorus]—who wrote a universal history—and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theopompus Theopompus]—who wrote the history of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon Philip II of Macedon].<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/296237/Isocrates Isocrates]," accessed October 31, 2013.</ref> Isocrates’ influence was embodied in his student’s achievements, and his legacy as an educator survived long after his death.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Isocrate d'Auger. 3.v. 8vo." and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Later sold by Jefferson to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:25 [no.4668].</ref> A copy of the 1781 edition at the Library of Congress, associated with Jefferson and the 1815 library, has no definitive Wythe markings. However, both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing suggest that this copy once belonged to George Wythe. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full leather, gilt-decorated, with red and green spine labels and gilt dentelle. Contains silk marker ribbons. Purchased from Poor Man's Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3621288 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=1VThWSwZqN8C&printsec=frontcover Google Books]. 
Read volume three of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=OszU7nyrVvsC&printsec=frontcover Google Books].

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Grammar of the Greek Language

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<big>''A Grammar of the Greek Language: Originally Composed for the College-School, at Gloucester, in Which it has been the Editor's Design to Reject What, in the Most Improved Edition Of Cambden, is Redundant, to Supply What is Deficient, to Reduce to Order What is Intricate and Confused, and to Consign to an Appendix What is not Requisite to be Got by Heart''</big>
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|publoc=Boston
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}}[[File:GrammarofTheGreekLanguage1800Inscription2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Poem, rear free endpaper verso.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Camden William Camden] (1551-1623) was an English author and historian whose finest work was his production of the first topographical survey of England, titled ''Britannia'' and published in 1595. After receiving his education, Camden was appointed second master of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_School Westminster School], and eventually headmaster.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/90745/William-Camden William Camden]," accessed October 31, 2013.</ref> In 1597 Camden was appointed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarenceux_King-of-Arms Clarenceux king-of-arms] and was relieved of schoolmaster’s chores and given more time for writing.<ref>Walter H. Godfrey with Sir Anthony Wagner, "[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118255 Clarenceux King of Arms]," ''Survey of London Monograph 16: College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street'', accessed from ''British History Online'', October 31, 2013.</ref> 
 
After beginning work on ''Britannia'' in 1577, Camden spent almost all of his free time traveling England to collect material for the book.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "William Camden."</ref> ''Britannia'' was a county-by-county description of Great Britain and Ireland. It was particularly influential because of the depth in which it described the various parts of England, including information on landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1615 Camden published a history of Queen Elizabeth’s reign.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
''Britannia'' was by far Camden’s most influential piece of writing, but in 1595 he published a Greek grammar textbook, ''Grammar of the Greek Language'', which was used extensively in secondary schools. ''Grammar'', as well as his historical account of Queen Elizabeth, also proved to be very influential during his lifetime and beyond.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Greek grammar of Gloucester. 8vo.'' and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold the same title to the Library of Congress in 1815, but the volume no longer exists to verify the edition or Wythe's prior ownership.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:70 [no.4757].</ref> Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing list the Boston first American edition (1800) of William Camden's ''A Grammar of the Greek Language'' based on E. Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full leather. Includes multiple signatures: "Charles T. Hildretch, Six Mile Road, 1812" on the front free endpaper, "George Hall" on the title page, "John Hrasen, 1812," "William Magee," and "Samuel Smith" on the rear flyleaf. Also has the stamp of "The Grove, Morden Aylesford, Nova Scotia." on the front free endpaper. The verso of the rear free endpaper features the manuscript poem:
<blockquote>Steal not this book my honest friend 
For fear you come to some bad end 
And at the judgement you shall be 
Damned throughout all eternity 
    Anonymous.</blockquote>
[[File:GrammarofTheGreekLanguage1800Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|150px|<center>Drawing, rear pastedown.</center>]]The rear pastedown revises the poem with the lines "Steal not this book my honest friend for fear this gallows will be your end." and a drawing of a man in a top hat with the initials "H. J." below. Purchased from David M. Lesser. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473892 William & Mary's online catalog].

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Philological Inquiries

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===by James Harris===
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}}[[File:HarrisPhilologicalInquiries1781Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_(grammarian) James Harris] (1709-1780), a philosopher and music patron, attended both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadham_College,_Oxford Wadham College] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_Inn Lincoln’s Inn], but graduated from neither.<ref>Rosemary Dunhill, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12393 Harris, James (1709–1780)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 18, 2013.</ref> He and his wife Elizabeth had five children, but only three of them lived past infancy.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Harris was a great admirer of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel Handel’s], and even wrote a first draft of one of the composer's librettos, ''L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato''.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Harris served as a member of parliament for Christchurch, as commissioner of admiralty and, eventually, as secretary and comptroller for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen Charlotte].<ref>Ibid.</ref> Harris had close royal ties, was elected as a fellow to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society Royal Society], and held a Trustee position in the British Museum for the fifteen years leading up to his death in 1780.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Harris’ writings held great significance among his contemporaries.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Although his writings are unfamiliar to many today, with ''Philological Inquiries'', Harris made a significant contribution to historical linguistics.<ref>Clive T. Probyn, “Johnson, James Harris, and the Logic of Happiness,” ''The Modern Language Review '' 73, no. 2 (Modern Humanities Research Association, April 1978): 256-266.</ref>
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}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Harris's Philological enquiries. 8vo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold a copy to the Library of Congress in 1815, but the volume no longer exists to verify Wythe's prior ownership.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:40 [no.4697].</ref> Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on February 26, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the first (1781) edition (we don't know if there were others). The Wolf Law Library followed their recommendations and purchased a copy of the first edition for the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary tree calf with spine divided in gilt compartments with gilt lozenges and lettering. Includes the bookplate of John Cator with the Latin motto "Nihil sine labore" (Without labor, nothing) on the front pastedown. Purchased from Am Here Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473890 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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==External Links==
Read parts one and two of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=eY0tAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.] 
Read part three of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=FYsPAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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Grammar of the Greek Language

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<big>''A Grammar of the Greek Language: Originally Composed for the College-School, at Gloucester, in Which it has been the Editor's Design to Reject What, in the Most Improved Edition Of Cambden, is Redundant, to Supply What is Deficient, to Reduce to Order What is Intricate and Confused, and to Consign to an Appendix What is not Requisite to be Got by Heart''</big>
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}}[[File:GrammarofTheGreekLanguage1800Inscription2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Poem, rear free endpaper verso.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Camden William Camden] (1551-1623) was an English author and historian whose finest work was his production of the first topographical survey of England, titled ''Britannia'' and published in 1595. After receiving his education, Camden was appointed second master of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_School Westminster School], and eventually headmaster.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/90745/William-Camden William Camden]," accessed October 31, 2013.</ref> In 1597 Camden was appointed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarenceux_King-of-Arms Clarenceux king-of-arms] and was relieved of schoolmaster’s chores and given more time for writing.<ref>Walter H. Godfrey with Sir Anthony Wagner, "[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118255 Clarenceux King of Arms]," ''Survey of London Monograph 16: College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street'' accessed from ''British History Online'' October 31, 2013.</ref> 
 
After beginning work on ''Britannia'' in 1577, Camden spent almost all of his free time traveling England to collect material for the book.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "William Camden."</ref> ''Britannia'' was a county-by-county description of Great Britain and Ireland. It was particularly influential because of the depth in which it described the various parts of England, including information on landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1615 Camden published a history of Queen Elizabeth’s reign.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
''Britannia'' was by far Camden’s most influential piece of writing, but in 1595 he published a Greek grammar textbook, ''Grammar of the Greek Language'', which was used extensively in secondary schools. ''Grammar'', as well as his historical account of Queen Elizabeth, also proved to be very influential during his lifetime and beyond.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Greek grammar of Gloucester. 8vo.'' and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold the same title to the Library of Congress in 1815, but the volume no longer exists to verify the edition or Wythe's prior ownership.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:70 [no.4757].</ref> Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing list the Boston first American edition (1800) of William Camden's ''A Grammar of the Greek Language'' based on E. Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full leather. Includes multiple signatures: "Charles T. Hildretch, Six Mile Road, 1812" on the front free endpaper, "George Hall" on the title page, "John Hrasen, 1812," "William Magee," and "Samuel Smith" on the rear flyleaf. Also has the stamp of "The Grove, Morden Aylesford, Nova Scotia." on the front free endpaper. The verso of the rear free endpaper features the manuscript poem:
<blockquote>Steal not this book my honest friend 
For fear you come to some bad end 
And at the judgement you shall be 
Damned throughout all eternity 
    Anonymous.</blockquote>
[[File:GrammarofTheGreekLanguage1800Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|150px|<center>Drawing, rear pastedown.</center>]]The rear pastedown revises the poem with the lines "Steal not this book my honest friend for fear this gallows will be your end." and a drawing of a man in a top hat with the initials "H. J." below. Purchased from David M. Lesser. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473892 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Language and Rhetoric]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn

2014-04-28T14:27:13Z

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<big>Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn = Dionysii Halicarnassei De Structura Orationis Liber</big>
===by Dionysius of Halicarnassus===
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}}[[File:DionysiouHalikarnasseosPeriSyntheseos1728Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus] (60 BCE–7 BCE) was a Greek historian and an instructor in the art of rhetoric. Dionysius moved to Rome in 30 BCE and spent twenty-two years studying the Latin language and preparing materials for his history.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/164249/Dionysius-of-Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus]," accessed November 7, 2013.</ref> In addition to dedicating time to his own studies, he also gave lessons in rhetoric.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ''Rhōmaïke Archaiologia'' (''Roman Antiquities'') consisted of twenty carefully researched books<ref>William Smith and Charles Anthon, "Dionysius of Halicarnassus" in ''A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and Geography, Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', rev. ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851), 6.</ref> and is considered to be one of the most valuable sources of early Roman history. <ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "Dionysius of Halicarnassus."</ref> Even though some critics consider Dionysius to be a mediocre historian, many agree that he was an exceptional literary critic who was proficient at examining an author’s style and historical context.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In addition to authoring his extensive history of Rome, Dionysius also wrote essays on a variety of topics. This work, “Peri syntheseos onomaton,” is the only surviving ancient discussion of word order.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Dionysius Halicarnasseus.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1615 Hanover edition of ''Dionysii Halicarnassei Scripta qvæ extant Omnia'' based on one of the copies Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:23-24 [no.48].</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing states "Precise work/edition unknown." Unable to verify a specific title or edition, the Wolf Law Library purchased ''Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn'' when a copy became available.
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}}==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full roan with red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine. Includes the armorial bookplate of "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Durell Dav. Durrell], A.M. Coll. Pemb." with the motto "Dos est magna parentum virtus" (The virtue of parents is a great dowry" (Horace)) on the front pastedown. A second motto is written on the printed bookplate in Arabic: "لا فخر بالمال والنسب بل فخر بالعلم والأدب" (Nobleness is not in wealth and lineage, rather nobleness is in knowledge and culture). The rear pastedown includes the inscription "Prosperum felix sellus virtus appellatur." Purchased from Rulon-Miller Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3726827 William & Mary's online catalog].
[[File:DionysiouHalikarnasseosPeriSyntheseos1728InscriptionRPD.jpg|center|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, rear pastedown.</center>]]
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Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide, d'Isée, de Dinarque

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===by Lycurgus, Andocides, Isaeus, Dinarchus, and Demades===
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|author=Lycurgus, Andocides, Isaeus, Dinarchus, and Demades
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|lang=French
|publoc=A Paris
|publisher=Chez De Bure, fils aîné ... ; Théophile Barrois ... ; Alexandre Jombert jeune ...
|year=1783
|pages=xvii, 578, [4]
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}}[[File:DiscoursDeLycurge1783StampTPV.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Library stamp of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Augustus_I_of_Hanover#King_of_Hanover_.281837.E2.80.931851.29 King Ernest Augustus of Hanover], title page verso.</center>]]''Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide, d'Isée, de Dinarque, avec un Fragment Sous le Nom de Démade'', is a collection of discourses attributed to the orators Lycurgus, Andocides, Isaeus, Dinarchus, and Demades. Along with Antiphon, Lysias, Isocrates, Aschines, Demosthenes and Hyperides,<ref>''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia'', s.v. "Oratory," 6th ed. (September 2013), accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> the first four of the five were counted among the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_orators Alexandrian Canon], or Canon of Ten,<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-280 Attic Orators]," accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> which was a list drawn up of the ten best Attic (Athenian) orators.<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-394 Canon]," accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> 
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_of_Athens Lycurgus], lived from 396 to 325 B.C and was pupil of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocrates Isocrates]. He was a "capable and honored public official… [who] administered the state finances from 338 to 326 B.C. and led (with Demosthenes) the anti-Macedonian party. One of his official acts ordered the editing and preserving of the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides."<ref>''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia'', s.v. "One of the Ten Attic Orators Lycurgus," 6th ed. (September 2013), accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> Lycurgus' oration ''Against Leocrates'' is still intact,<ref>Ibid.</ref> and is among the discourses in the collection. 
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andocides Andocides] (440 to 390 B.C.E) was accused of mutilating statues of the god, Hermes, as a rebellious gesture against the Sicilian expedition.<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-128edited Andocidēs]," accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> When he was arrested, he confessed to receive immunity for himself and his father, but was forbidden from entering the Agora and the temples.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Rather than live with these restrictions, he left Athens and made a life for himself as a merchant until the Amnesty of 403.<ref>Ibid.</ref> His discourses in the collection include, "Sur les Mystères" (On the Mysteries), his defense against his continued disgrace and restrictions, and "Pour la paix" (“For Peace”), his speech given while he was an Athenian envoy to Sparta to negotiate a peace agreement.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
[[File:DiscoursDeLycurge1783Endpiece1.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Endpiece, page 280.</center>]]
Little is known about the life of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaeus Isaeus] (420 B.C.E to sometime after 353 B.C.E.),<ref>''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1681 Īsae'us]," accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> but he is thought to have been either Athenian or Chalcidian by birth, a pupil of Isocrates, and a teacher of Demosthenes.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Isaeus was a logographos—one hired to write speeches for litigants to deliver in a court of law.<ref>''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1834 logo'graphers]," accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> He composed all of his discourse for others to deliver, and Isaeus himself was not involved in political life.<ref>''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', s.v. "Īsae'us."</ref> He is credited with writing fifty speeches, but only eleven and part of a twelfth have survived. This collection includes these surviving discourse which "all deal with cases of inheritance… [that] are important as illustrative of Athenian testamentary law and of social history."<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinarchus Dinarchus] lived from 360 to 290 B.C. in Athens, although he was Corinthian by birth.<ref>''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-0964 Deina'rchus]," accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> Because he was not an Athenian citizen, he could not address the assembly.<ref>Ibid.</ref> However, Dinarchus composed a large number of speeches for others.<ref>Ibid.</ref> His surviving speeches, which are in this collection, include "Sommaire de la harangue contre Démosthene" (Against Demosthenes), "Discours de même Dinarque Contre Aristogiton" (Against Aristogeiton ) and "Discours de même Dinarque Contre Philoclès" (Against Philocles), all three of which were involved with the Harpalus affair,<ref>Ibid.</ref> a scandal involving a fugitive treasurer of Alexander the Great and accusations that Demosthenes had embezzled some of the treasurer’s money.<ref>''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-0990 Dēmo'sthenēs]," accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> 
 
Finally, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demades Demades], the sole orator in the group not counted among the Canon of Ten, lived from 380 to 319 B.C.E.<ref>''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', s.v. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-0979 Dē'madēs]," accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> An Athenian politician, he was "devoted to implementing his realization that, in order to survive, Athens must come to terms with Macedonian power.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> Among his accomplishments were securing an honorable settlement for Athens after its defeat by Philip II of Macedon, and “dissuading Alexander the Great from demanding the surrender of Demosthenes and other advocates of revolt against Macedonian rule."<ref>Ibid.</ref> To keep the peace with Macedon, Demades secured by decree the deaths of the politicians opposed to peace, including Hypereides and Demosthenes; he himself was later caught in the political intrigue and executed by Cassander.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Although he had no formal training in rhetoric and published no speeches, the fragments in this collection preserve a few of his “striking phrases.”<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide etc par Auger. Fr. 8vo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and may have been sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Jefferson did sell a copy of the first (1738) edition of ''Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide, d'Isée, de Dinarque'' to the Library of Congress, and that copy still exists today. The set has no definitive markings linking it to Wythe, however.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:24 [no.4665].</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on March 5, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing lists the copy at the Library of Congress. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> discusses the Library of Congress copy, noting Jefferson owned another copy that was sold in 1829 after his death. The Wolf Law Library followed the recommendations of Brown and LibraryThing and purchased the first edition.
[[File:DiscoursDeLycurge1783Endpiece2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Endpiece, page 320.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in marbled cardboard from the later nineteenth century. Includes crown and initial stamp "E.D.C" on the title page and stamp from the library of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Augustus_I_of_Hanover Ernest Augustus I of Hanover], with the Latin motto "Suscipere et finire" (To undertake and accomplish) on the title page verso.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/3719559 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
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Œuvres Complettes de Démosthene et d'Eschine

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<big>''Œuvres Complettes de Démosthene et d'Eschine, Traduites en François, avec des Remarques sur les Harangues & Plaidoyers de Ces Deux Orateurs, & des Notes Critiques & Grammaticales en Latin, sur le Texte Grec: Accompagnées D'un Discours Préliminaire sur L'éloquence & Autres Objets Intéressants; D'un Traité de la Jurisdiction & les Loix d'Athenes; D'un Précis Historique sur la Constitution de la Grece, sur le Gouvernement d'Athenes, & sur la Vie de Philippe; &C''</big>
===by Demosthenes and Aeschines===
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|shorttitle=Œuvres Complettes de Démosthene et d'Eschine
|vol=volume one
|trans=Abbé Athanese Auger
|author=Demosthenes and Aeschines
|publoc=Paris
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|year=1777
|lang=French
|set=4 volumes in 5
|desc=8vo (20 cm.)
}}[[File:OeuvresComplettesDeDemostheneEtDEschine1777v1Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes Demosthenes] (384-322 BCE) was a prominent statesman and orator in Ancient Greece. Demosthenes was the son of a wealthy swordsmith, but was orphaned at the age of seven.<ref>Ian Worthington, ''Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator'' (London: Routledge, 2000), 162.</ref> His father left him with a substantial inheritance, but his guardians mishandled it and left him with only a fraction of the initial estate.<ref>Ibid., 186.</ref> At the age of twenty Demosthenes sued his guardians for misappropriating his estate, and won.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Demosthenes developed his skills as an orator by studying speeches given by earlier great orators.<ref>Ibid., 240.</ref> He transferred his talents as an orator and writer into a successful professional speech-writing career.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/157438/Demosthenes Demosthenes]," accessed October 24, 2013.</ref> During his time as a speech-writer Demosthenes developed an interest in politics; he went on to devote most of his career to opposing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_%28ancient_kingdom%29 Macedon]’s expansion.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He spoke out against both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon Philip II of Macedon] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great Alexander the Great].<ref>Ibid.</ref> Demosthenes played a leading role in his city’s uprising against Alexander. The revolt was met with harsh reprisals and Demosthenes took his own life to prevent being arrested.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Demosthenes’ oratory works were highly influential during the Middle Ages and Renaissance,<ref>Ibid.</ref> and inspired the authors of the ''Federalist Papers'' and the major orators of the French Revolution.<ref>Konstantinos Tsatsos, "XV" in ''Demosthenes'' (Athens: Estia, 1975), 352.</ref> 
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschines Aeschines] (389-314 BCE) was a Greek statesman, orator, and bitter political opponent of Demosthenes. He was raised in humble circumstances and worked as an actor before becoming a member of the embassies to Philip II.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/7407/Aeschines Aeschines]," accessed November 14, 2013.</ref> He eventually provoked Philip II to establish Macedonian control over central Greece.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Unlike Demosthenes, Aeschines was a proponent of Macedonian expansion. The two orators collided when Aeschines brought suit against a certain Ctesiphon for proposing the award of a crown to Demosthenes in recognition of his services to Athens.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Aeschines suffered a resounding defeat in the trial and subsequently left Athens for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes Rhodes] where he taught rhetoric.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Oeuvres de Demosthene & do Eschine par Auger. Fr. 5.v. 8vo." and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Later sold by Jefferson to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:24 [no.4664].</ref> Jefferson's copy of the 1777 edition of ''Œuvres Complettes de Démosthene et d'Eschine'' is still at the Library of Congress, but it has no definitive Wythe markings. Nevertheless, both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]" accessed on April 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing list this copy as the one which once belonged to George Wythe. Accordingly, the Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the same work into the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in quarter green calf. Spines have gilt bands and lettering. Two parts of volume two bound together. Library is missing volumes three and four. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3695139 William & Mary's online catalog].

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Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn

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<big>Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn = Dionysii Halicarnassei De Structura Orationis Liber</big>
===by Dionysius of Halicarnassus===
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}}[[File:DionysiouHalikarnasseosPeriSyntheseos1728Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus] (60 BCE–7 BCE) was a Greek historian and an instructor in the art of rhetoric. Dionysius moved to Rome in 30 BCE and spent twenty-two years studying the Latin language and preparing materials for his history.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/164249/Dionysius-of-Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus]," accessed November 07, 2013.</ref> In addition to dedicating time to his own studies, he also gave lessons in rhetoric.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ''Rhōmaïke Archaiologia'' (''Roman Antiquities'') consisted of twenty carefully researched books<ref>William Smith and Charles Anthon, "Dionysius of Halicarnassus" in ''A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and Geography, Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', rev. ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851), 6.</ref> and is considered to be one of the most valuable sources of early Roman history. <ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "Dionysius of Halicarnassus."</ref> Even though some critics consider Dionysius to be a mediocre historian, many agree that he was an exceptional literary critic who was proficient at examining an author’s style and historical context.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In addition to authoring his extensive history of Rome, Dionysius also wrote essays on a variety of topics. This work, “Peri syntheseos onomaton,” is the only surviving ancient discussion of word order.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Dionysius Halicarnasseus.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1615 Hanover edition of ''Dionysii Halicarnassei Scripta qvæ extant Omnia'' based on one of the copies Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:23-24 [no.48].</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing states "Precise work/edition unknown." Unable to verify a specific title or edition, the Wolf Law Library purchased ''Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn'' when a copy became available.
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}}==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full roan with red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine. Includes the armorial bookplate of "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Durell Dav. Durrell], A.M. Coll. Pemb." with the motto "Dos est magna parentum virtus" (The virtue of parents is a great dowry" (Horace)) on the front pastedown. A second motto is written on the printed bookplate in Arabic: "لا فخر بالمال والنسب بل فخر بالعلم والأدب" (Nobleness is not in wealth and lineage, rather nobleness is in knowledge and culture). The rear pastedown includes the inscription "Prosperum felix sellus virtus appellatur." Purchased from Rulon-Miller Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3726827 William & Mary's online catalog].
[[File:DionysiouHalikarnasseosPeriSyntheseos1728InscriptionRPD.jpg|center|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, rear pastedown.</center>]]
==References==
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M.T. Ciceronis Orationes Quaedam Selectae

2014-04-28T14:19:48Z

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===by Marcus Tullius Cicero===
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|author=Marcus Tullius Cicero
|edition=Editio quarta, auctior & emendatior.
|editor=Charles de Hallot de Mérouville
|lang=Latin
|publoc=Londini
|publisher=Typis Gulielmi Sayes, impensis J. Knapton, R Wilkin, J. & B. Sprint, B. & S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, G. Mortlock, W. & J. Innys, & A. Ward
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero] (106–43 BCE) was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He is widely considered to be one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists.<ref>Elizabeth Rawson, ''Cicero: A Portrait'' (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1994), 303; Henry Joseph Haskell, ''This was Cicero'' (New York: Fawcett Publications, 1964), 300-01.</ref> Cicero's influence on the Latin language was so immense that the history of prose in both Latin and European languages up to the nineteenth century was said to be either a reaction against or a return to his style.<ref>''Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature'', s.v. "Ciceronian period" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1995), 244.</ref> 
 
In addition to his profound skills as a linguist, translator and philosopher, Cicero introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary.<ref>Gian Biagio Conte, ''Latin Literature: A History'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 199.</ref> When Cicero’s letters were rediscovered in the fourteenth century, his teachings and writings became a foundation for the initiation of the fourteenth century Renaissance.<ref>Liana Cheney, "[http://faculty.uml.edu/CulturalStudies/Italian_Renaissance/8_9.htm Italian Renaissance Art: Humanism & Philosophical Background: Neoplatonism, Ficino and Pico]," accessed October 24, 2013.</ref> According to one historian, “[The] Renaissance was above all things a revival of Cicero, and only after him and through him of the rest of Classical antiquity.”<ref>Tadeusz Zielinski, ''Cicero im Wandel der Jahrhunderte'' (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1897).</ref> 
 
The Peak of Cicero’s influence came during the eighteenth century [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment Enlightenment].<ref>Neal Wood, ''Cicero's Social and Political Thought'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 168.</ref> His work had a profound impact on the individuals who were most influential during the Enlightenment such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_locke John Locke], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume David Hume], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu Montesquieu].<ref>Ibid.</ref> As a politician, Cicero was a fierce advocate for republican principles.<ref>M. N. S. Sellers, ''American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution'' (New York: New York University Press, 1994), 57.</ref> It was this highly pro-republic philosophy that caused Cicero’s work to have a great impact on the Founders of the United States.<ref>Ibid.</ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams John Adams] said of Cicero, “As all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than Cicero, his authority should have great weight.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> [[Thomas Jefferson]] lists Cicero (along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle], Locke and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Sydney Sidney]) as an author of "books of public right" which provided "harmonizing sentiments of the day" which Jefferson express in the [[Declaration of Independence]].<ref>"[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib025396 Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, Jr., May 8, 1825]" in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'' (Washington DC: Library of Congress), images 219-220.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Ciceronis orationes selectae Delph. 8vo.'' [[Thomas Jefferson]] gave Wythe's copy to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]" accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates as much while noting "Numerous octavo editions were published at Cambridge and London, the first in 1692." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1722, London edition and this is the one the Wolf Law Library chose to purchase.
[[File:CiceroMTCiceronisOrationesQuaedamSelectae1722headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in original decorative calf binding with copperplate ink signature to title page. Includes the bookplate of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Ramsgate, pasted over an earlier bookplate for Bousfield and Pallsiter's Circulating Library, Margate. Purchased from Rooke Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3630042 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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Demetriou Phalēreōs Peri Hermēneias

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<big>''Demetriou Phalēreōs Peri Hermēneias = Demetrii Phalerei De Elocutione, Sive Dictione Rhetorica, in hac Editione, Contextus Graecus ex Optimis Exemplaribus Emendatur, Versio Latina Passim ab Erroribus Repurgatur; & Loca À Demetris Laudata, Quae Hactenus Graecè Tantum Extabant, Nunc Primùm Latinitate Donantur''</big>
===by Demetrius===
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|author=Demetrius
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_of_Phalerum Demetrius of Phalerum] (350–280 BCE) was an ancient Greek orator and writer. He rose from relative obscurity and humble beginnings to become one of the most prolific and well-known ancient Greek writers. Demetrius was born into a family which had no rank or property,<ref>Claudius Aelian, ''Varia Historia'', ed. Mervin R. Dilts (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1974), 43.</ref> but there is evidence that he was educated in the school of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophrastus Theophrastus].<ref>William W. Fortenbaugh, Pamela M. Huby, and A. A. Long, "Theophrastus and the Theory of Style" in ''Theophrastus of Eresus: On His Life and Work'' (New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction Books, 1985), 251.</ref> At the age of twenty-five he began his public career, where he soon acquired a great reputation based on the talent he displayed in public speaking. Demetrius was eventually placed at the head of the administration of Athens.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/157050/Demetrius-of-Phaleron Demetrius Of Phaleron]," accessed October 24, 2013.</ref> He maintained this position for ten years, during which time he instituted extensive legal reforms.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Demetrius was very popular during his time in Athens, but was criticized by the lower class of Athenians who resented the limitations he put on democracy.<ref>Peter Green, ''Alexander to Actium: the Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 36.</ref> 
 
Athens was captured in 307 BCE and Demetrius, at age forty-three, was forced to flee the city.<ref>Demetr. Plutarch, ''Dionysius of Halicarnassus'' (New York: Garland Pub., 1987), 3.</ref> Following his flight, his enemies convinced the people of Athens to pass the death sentence upon him.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "Demetrius Of Phaleron."</ref> Demetrius traveled to the court of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I Ptolemy I] at Alexandria where he devoted himself to his literary pursuits; most of his literary works were written during his time in Egypt.<ref>Ibid.</ref> His works covered a wide range of topics such as history, philosophy, politics, and poetry.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Demetrius Phalereus de elocutione. Gr. Lat. Foulis. 8vo.'' and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold a copy to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:18 [no.4654].</ref> A copy of the 1743, Foulis edition at the Library of Congress is associated with Jefferson, but has no definitive Jefferson or Wythe markings. It does include manuscript notes in Greek. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing suggest that this copy may be the one which once belonged to George Wythe. With such strong evidence at hand, the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1743 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked with original gilt-lettered morocco label. Includes the bookplate of L.A. Burd with the Latin motto "Summa peto" (seek the highest) and the initials "K.S." 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3757398 William & Mary's online catalog].
==References==
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[[Category:Language and Rhetoric]]
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[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

M.T. Ciceronis Orationes Quaedam Selectae

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===by Marcus Tullius Cicero===
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|author=Marcus Tullius Cicero
|edition=Editio quarta, auctior & emendatior.
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|publoc=Londini
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero] (106–43 BCE) was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He is widely considered to be one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists.<ref>Elizabeth Rawson, ''Cicero: A Portrait'' (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1994), 303; Henry Joseph Haskell, ''This was Cicero'' (New York: Fawcett Publications, 1964), 300-01.</ref> Cicero's influence on the Latin language was so immense that the history of prose in both Latin and European languages up to the nineteenth century was said to be either a reaction against or a return to his style.<ref>''Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature'', s.v. "Ciceronian period" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1995), 244.</ref> 
 
In addition to his profound skills as a linguist, translator and philosopher, Cicero introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary.<ref>Gian Biagio Conte, ''Latin Literature: A History'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 199.</ref> When Cicero’s letters were rediscovered in the fourteenth century, his teachings and writings became a foundation for the initiation of the fourteenth century Renaissance.<ref>Liana Cheney, "[http://faculty.uml.edu/CulturalStudies/Italian_Renaissance/8_9.htm Italian Renaissance Art: Humanism & Philosophical Background: Neoplatonism, Ficino and Pico]," accessed October 24, 2013.</ref> According to one historian, “[The] Renaissance was above all things a revival of Cicero, and only after him and through him of the rest of Classical antiquity.”<ref>Tadeusz Zielinski, ''Cicero im Wandel der Jahrhunderte'' (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1897).</ref> 
 
The Peak of Cicero’s influence came during the eighteenth century [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment Enlightenment].<ref>Neal Wood, ''Cicero's Social and Political Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 168.</ref> His work had a profound impact on the individuals who were most influential during the Enlightenment such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_locke John Locke], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume David Hume], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu Montesquieu].<ref>Ibid.</ref> As a politician, Cicero was a fierce advocate for republican principles.<ref>M. N. S. Sellers, ''American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution'' (New York: New York University Press, 1994), 57.</ref> It was this highly pro-republic philosophy that caused Cicero’s work to have a great impact on the Founders of the United States.<ref>Ibid.</ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams John Adams] said of Cicero, “As all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than Cicero, his authority should have great weight.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> [[Thomas Jefferson]] lists Cicero (along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle], Locke and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Sydney Sidney]) as an author of "books of public right" which provided "harmonizing sentiments of the day" which Jefferson express in the [[Declaration of Independence]].<ref>"[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib025396 Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, Jr., May 8, 1825]" in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'' (Washington DC: Library of Congress), images 219-220.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Ciceronis orationes selectae Delph. 8vo.'' [[Thomas Jefferson]] gave Wythe's copy to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]" accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates as much while noting "Numerous octavo editions were published at Cambridge and London, the first in 1692." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1722, London edition and this is the one the Wolf Law Library chose to purchase.
[[File:CiceroMTCiceronisOrationesQuaedamSelectae1722headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in original decorative calf binding with copperplate ink signature to title page. Includes the bookplate of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Ramsgate, pasted over an earlier bookplate for Bousfield and Pallsiter's Circulating Library, Margate. Purchased from Rooke Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3630042 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Language and Rhetoric]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

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===by Hugh Blair===
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|author=Hugh Blair
|publoc=Philadelphia
|publisher=Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's head in Market street
|year=1784
|edition=First American
|lang=English
|pages=viii, 454, [12]
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}}[[File:BlairLecturesOnRhetoric1784Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Gift inscription to George Wythe, front free endpaper.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Blair Hugh Blair] (1718-1800) was born in Edinburgh, the only child of a prominent Presbyterian family.<ref>Richard B. Sher, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2563?docPos=1 Blair, Hugh (1718–1800)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed November 2, 2013. Subsequent biographical information derives from this article.</ref> He entered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh University of Edinburgh] at age thirteen where he studied moral philosophy and literature. Two years after finishing his university education, Blair became a Presbyterian preacher. Blair achieved various positions of authority within the Church, and began publishing his largest work, ''Sermons'', during this time.

Beginning in 1760 Blair taught rhetoric and composition at the University of Edinburgh. As he approached retirement, he published many of his lessons in ''Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres'', perhaps fearful that corrupt manuscripts would circulate. The ''Lectures'' series was first published in 1783 in London, and later that same year in Edinburgh. The publication of ''Lectures on Rhetoric and Bells Lettres'' firmly cemented Blair’s place as a central figure in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Enlightenment Scottish Enlightenment], and Blair’s ''Sermons'' gained some fame in the United States during the early nineteenth century.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe definitely owned this title; a copy at the College of William & Mary includes the inscription on the front free endpaper: "For the Honorable George Wythe Esquire from his most affectionate friend and obliged humble servant. Thomas Lee Shippen." Signed "George W" below this. Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Blair's lectures. 1st. vol. 4to." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson, [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. Both Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing list this title.
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}}==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
On permanent loan from the [http://www.swem.wm.edu/ Earl Gregg Swem Library] at the College of William & Mary. Bound in the original paper boards. A presentation copy, it is inscribed, "For the Honorable George Wythe Esquire from his most affectionate friend and obliged humble servant. Thomas Lee Shippen." Includes signatures of "George W." (on the front free end paper, below the inscription) and "T. J. Randolph" on the title page. The bookplate of W. K. Bixby is on the front pastedown. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/382045 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
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[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

History of Florence

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<big>''The History of Florence: in Eight Books''</big>
===by Niccolò Machiavelli===
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}}The ''Florentine Histories'' consist of eight volumes that detail the shaping of the city-state of Florence. They were printed in 1532 and written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavelli Niccolo Machiavelli]. Machiavelli was born in 1469 in Florence, where he spent most of his life. A politician, diplomat, and historian, he held high offices in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Florence Republic of Florence]. When the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Medici Medici] returned to power, Machiavelli fell into disgrace and turned to them in hopes of saving both his own career and Florence. 
 
Machiavelli sought the commission to write the ''Florentine Histories'' and was granted it by Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, later [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VII Pope Clement VII].<ref>John M. Najemy, "Machiavelli and the Medici: The Lessons of Florentine History," ''Renaissance Quarterly'' 35, no. 4 (1982): 553.</ref> The ''Histories'' begin with the fall of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire Western Roman Empire] and end with the death of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_de%27_Medici Lorenzo Il Magnifico]. The ''Florentine Histories'' were Machiavelli’s study of the Republic and reveal his desire to see it brought back. He found that “as one such citizen of a ruined republic, having understood in historical terms the process of that ruin, he now looks to those very misfortunes, indeed to the ''history'' that he and the republic had suffered, as the beginning of wisdom, and from an understanding of which new life would become possible.”<ref>Najemy, "Machiavelli and the Medici," 576.</ref> Taken as whole, the eight volumes seem to draw the conclusion that in order for the Republic to be brought back it would have to rid itself of the Medici.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Not surprisingly, the Medici accused him of conspiracy and had Machiavelli arrested, tortured and exiled to his estate at Sant'Andrea in Percussina. Machiavelli died there in 1527. 
 
''The History of Florence'' became significant in the eighteenth century as the American colonies were striving for their independence and looking to create their own republic. The founders would knowingly, and in some cases unknowingly, espouse the ideals of a republic that Machiavelli championed centuries earlier. “Jefferson’s commitment to limited government, his advocacy of a politics of distrust, his eager embrace of a species of populism, his ultimate understanding of the executive power, and the intention guiding the comprehensive legislative program that he devised for Virginia make sense only when understood in terms of the new science of republic politics articulated by Machiavelli.”<ref>Paul A. Rahe, "Thomas Jefferson's Machiavellian Political Science," ''The Review of Politis'' 57, no. 3 (1995): 449.</ref> Unlike Jefferson, who just shared some of Machiavelli’s ideas, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams John Adams] “actually read and took seriously Machiavelli and his writings,” and “he copied over one-hundred pages from the Florentine Histories” for the second volume of ''A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America''.<ref>C. Bradley Thompson, "John Adams's Machiavellian Moment," ''The Review of Politics'' 57, no. 3 (1995): 390.</ref> In the ''Defence'', Adams “retraced Machiavelli’s history of Florence, attributing its unrelenting sequence of political tragedies to its failure to incorporate the mixed constitution, a point Adams repeatedly belabored Machiavelli for missing.”<ref>Andrew J Reck, "The Enlightenment in American Law II: The Constitution," ''The Review of Metaphysics'', 44, no. 4 (1991): 740.</ref> Machiavelli’s ''History of Florence'', an important work during his time, continued to be important centuries later as it helped shape the minds of men creating a new republic.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Machiavel.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Marchiavel's Works' ($4.00 value)." We do not have enough information to conclusively identify either which title Machiavelli authored nor which edition, Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]" accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Probably a collection of Machiavelli's works, but the language and format are not indicated." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1761 Glasgow edition of ''The History of Florence in Eight Books'' based on a copy at the University of Virginia with the signature "Thomas M. Randolph" inside the front board of volume two. The Wolf Law Library agreed with Brown's reasoning and purchased the title and edition he suggested.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full brown calf with raised bands and red leather spine labels printed in gilt. Purchased from Royoung Bookseller, Inc. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3474037 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
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[[Category:Italian History]]
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[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Histoire des Celtes

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<big>''Histoire des Celtes: et Particulierment des Gaulois et des Germains, Depuis les Tems Fabuleux, Jusqu'à la Prise de Rome par les Gaulois''</big>
===by Simon Pelloutier===
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|vol=volume one
|author=Simon Pelloutier
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|publisher=Chez Isaac Beauregard
|year=1750
|lang=English
|set=2
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}}[[File:PelloutierHistoireDesCeltes1750v1InitialCapital.jpg|left|thumb|400px|<center>Initial capital, first page of text, volume one.</center>]]''L’Histoire Des Celtes: et Particulièrement des Gaulois et des Germains, Depuis les Tems Fabuleux, Jusqu'à la Prise de Rome par les Gaulois'' (History of the Celts: Particularly of the Gauls and the Germans, from Fabulous Times to the Capture of Rome by the Gauls) is a historical study written by Simon Pelloutier (1694-1757), a German historian of French descent.<ref>Richard Alfred Davenport, ''A Dictionary of Biography: Comprising the Most Eminent Characters of All Ages, Nations and Professions'' (Exeter: J.& B. and Williams, 1843), 411.</ref> Due to their Protestant faith, Pelloutier’s Lyonese family was exiled from France after the revocation of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Nantes Edict of Nantes].<ref>Louis Gabriel Michaud, ''Biographie Universelle: Ancienne et Moderne ou L’Histoire par Ordre Alphabetique, de la Vie Publique et Privée de Tous les Hommes Qui Se Sont Fait Remarquer par leur Ecrits, Leurs Actions, Leurs Talents, Leurs Vertus ou Leurs Crimes'' (Paris : CH. Delagrave et Compagnie, 1821), 32:417.</ref> Pelloutier studied theology and became a minister of the French church of Berlin, and a librarian and member of the Berlin Academy.<ref>Davenport, ''A Dictionary of Biography'', 411.</ref> 
 
''L’Histore Des Celtes'' is Pelloutier’s only notable work, but it assured him a lasting reputation.<ref>Michaud, ''Biographie Universelle'', 32:417.</ref> It is divided into four books, or sections. The first focuses on the Celts’ origins, the country they inhabited, the different names they called themselves throughout history, and their language.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The second book examines the Celts’ mores, customs, and activities.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The third explores their laws and dogmas, and the fourth discusses Celts’ religious ceremonies and Celtic and Scythian philosophy.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
[[File:PelloutierHistoireDesCeltes1750v1Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|400px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text, volume one.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Both [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 13 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> include Simon Pelloutier's ''Histoire des Celtes'' based on notations made by [[Thomas Jefferson]] in his commonplace book. Both Dean and Brown cite Alan Smith's dissertion, "Virginia Lawyers, 1680-1776: The Birth of an American Profession".<ref>Alan McKinley Smith "Virginia Lawyers, 1680-1776: The Birth of an American Profession" (PhD diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 1967), 262.</ref> Brown also references Jefferson's commonplace book at the Library of Congress, noting "Jefferson regularly cites this book in his Legal Commonplace Book at a time shortly following his personal study under Wythe (circa 1763), but within a possible window of influence from Wythe." Jefferson studied law beginning in 1762.<ref>William Clarkin, ''Serene Patriot: A Life of George Wythe'' (Albany, New York: Alan Publications, 1970), 40.</ref> He recorded a purchase of Pelloutier's work in 1785,<ref>Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond."</ref> so it seems likely he used a copy owned by Wythe in 1763. Both Dean and Brown list the 1750 edition, and the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.
[[File:PelloutierHistoireDesCeltes1750v2Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|400px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text, volume two.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with triple gilt rules to boards. Spine features five raised bands and gilt ornamental compartments. Title and volume labels are black morocco with gilt lettering.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3679301 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
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Works of Sir William Temple

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===by Sir William Temple===
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|editor=Jonathan Swift
|lang=English
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed for A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton, R. Smith, B. Tooke
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}}[[File:WorksOfSirWilliamTemple1720v1Headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Temple,_1st_Baronet Sir William Temple], 1st Baronet (1628-1699) was an English statesman and diplomat. He attended Cambridge University but did not graduate, choosing instead to travel throughout Continental Europe from 1648-1654.<ref>J. D. Davies, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27122 Temple, Sir William, baronet (1628–1699)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> Following his marriage to Dorothy Osborne, Temple became a diplomat and was awarded a baronetcy in 1666.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1668, he became Ambassador to the Netherlands, where he helped negotiate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_%281668%29 Triple Alliance] between England, the Netherlands, and Sweden. He would later help negotiate the end to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Dutch_War Dutch War], and the marriage of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_II_of_England Princess Mary] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England William of Orange].<ref>''Encyclopedia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/586878/Sir-William-Temple-Baronet Sir William Temple, Baronet]," accessed October 8, 2013.</ref> Temple also wrote extensively. His most famous work is ''Observations upon the United Provinces'', a history of the Netherlands.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Temple also wrote many shorter essays on a wide range of subjects, including trade in Ireland, "popular discontents", "health and long life" and "ancient and modern learning".<ref>Sir William Temple, ''The Works of Sir WIlliam Temple, Bart.'' (London: Printed for A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton, R. Smith, B. Tooke, 1720), preface.</ref> "In both his political and literary careers, he showed himself a keen and perceptive student of human nature, and this, perhaps, shaped both his strengths and his weaknesses: as a statesman he was a capable and reliable subordinate for the likes of Arlington and Danby, rather than an independent power broker; as a writer he was readable, intelligent, and stylish, rather than deeply profound."<ref>Davies, "Temple, Sir William."</ref>
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Temple's works. 2.v. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1750 edition based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:155 [no.366].</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on October 9, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Two-volume editions were published at London in 1720, 1731, 1740, 1745, and 1750." Because we don't know the exact edition Wythe owned, the Wolf Law Library chose to purchase a copy of the first two-volume edition (1720).
[[File:WorksOfSirWilliamTemple1720v2Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, title page, volume two.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary leather with design pressed on front boards. Modern leather spine with title and column number gilt embossed. Signed "D. Anderson, St Germains" on the title page of volume one and "David Anderson, St Germains" on the title page of volume two. Purchased from Sequitur Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3446409 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
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[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton

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<big>''A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton: Correctly Printed from the Original Editions: with an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Containing Several Original Papers of His, Never Before Published''</big>
===by John Milton===
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}}[[File:MiltonCompleteWorks1738Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_milton John Milton] (1608-1674), was an English poet and polemicist, and a civil servant under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell Oliver Cromwell]. Best known for his canonical epic poem, ''Paradise Lost'', Milton began to write poetry in English and Latin at Cambridge in 1625.<ref>Gordon Campbell, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18800 Milton, John (1608–1674)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 26, 2013. All biographical information is from this source unless otherwise noted.</ref> From this early poetry one can see Milton’s critical view of Catholicism. His first published poem was a commendatory poem in the second published folio of Shakespeare’s work in 1632, titled “On Shakespeare.”<ref>W.P. Trent, “John Milton," ''The Sewanee Review'' 5, no. 1 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1897): 2-3.</ref> 
 
Greatly affected by the deaths of his mother and his friend and fellow poet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_King_%28British_poet%29 Edward King], Milton traveled abroad to Paris and throughout Italy in 1638.<ref>Pauline Lacy Smith, “John Milton as an Educator,” ''Peabody Journal of Education'' 23, no. 3 (Taylor & Francis, Ltd., Nov. 1945): 170-71.</ref> When he returned to England, Milton published five anti-prelatical pamphlets that criticize the governance of the Church. With the dissolution of his first marriage in 1642 he began to write extensively on divorce, saying that the breakdown of a marriage should constitute grounds for divorce.<ref>Trent, 8-9.</ref> 
 
Milton’s career from 1641-1674 fluctuated between a focus on poetry, political and religious criticisms, and histories. Milton’s political writings from 1649-1655 are marked by a disbelief in the divine right of kings, advocacy for a more republican government, and his controversial defense of regicide that made him infamous across Europe. He also wrote a formidable proposal for the reformation of the English education system<ref>Smith, 173.</ref>, treatises on the importance of a free press, and a treatise against the use of tithes. After becoming blind in 1652, Milton began to dictate his writing.<ref>W.H. Wilmer, “The Blindness of Milton,” ''The Journal of English and Germanic Philology'' 32, no. 3 (University of Illinois Press, July 1993): 308.</ref> 
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}}Milton’s political writing in the 1650s controversially challenged monarchy as the best form of government. Instead, he advocated for a republic comprised of a “Grand or Supreme Council” of virtuous aristocrats. This political philosophy of “republican exclusivism” greatly influenced the United States’ founding fathers, including [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref>Nathan R. Perl-Rosenthal, “The ‘Divine Right of Republics’: Hebraic Republicanism and the Debate over Kingless Government in Revolutionary America,” ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', 3rd ser., 66, no. 3 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Jul. 2009): 538.</ref> Jefferson specifically used Milton’s ideas that criticized the governance of the church to argue for the separation of church and state in Virginia. 
 
Milton's books were ordered to be burned and he was imprisoned in the Tower after the restoration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England Charles II] in 1660. Milton dictated ''Paradise Lost'' from around 1658-1663. This epic poem presents the story of Genesis, with shockingly humanized depictions of God, Satan, Adam and Eve. ''Paradise Regained'', somewhat a sequel to ''Paradise Lost'', depicts Jesus’ wanderings in the desert. It was published in 1671, along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Agonistes ''Samson Agonistes''.] Milton published ''History of Britain'' in 1671, though it was written in the 1650s. His last published work, shortly before his death in 1674, was a reorganized version of ''Paradise Lost'' in twelve books. 
 
“In life Milton was both praised and scorned; praised for his achievements in poetry and scorned for his writings on church and state.”<ref>''eNotes'', s.v. "[http://www.enotes.com/topics/john-milton/critical-essays/milton-john John Milton]," accessed October 23, 2013.</ref> In the eighteenth century, Milton’s work was “largely responsible for the shift from rhyme to blank verse, and also for many features of poetic diction and syntax.”<ref>Campbell, "Milton, John."</ref> Milton’s ''Paradise Lost'' permeated the arts, inspiring imitation and parody in written work. It also became the cornerstone for a focus on the “sublime,” as well as the inspiration for a focus on the picturesque in the visual art of the time.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Milton’s Prose works. 2.v. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Milton's Works (damaged)' (2 vols., $2.00 value)." The only two-volume, folio edition of Milton's works was published in 1738. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> include the 1738 edition, and this was the edition purchased by the Wolf Law Library.
[[File:MiltonCompleteWorks1738v1Inscription.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front free endpaper, volume one.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with matched period rebacking. Previous owner's inscription, "Samuel C. Lewis, London, Jan. 9, 1904" appears on the front free endpaper. Both volumes have the armorial bookplate of John Rigby with the Latin motto "Esse quam videri" (to be rather than to seem) on the front pastedown. This may be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rigby_(politician) Sir John Rigby], Attorney General and Lord Justice of Appeal.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=negyAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA459#v=onepage&q&f=false549 ''The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn: The Black Books, Vol. IV: A.D. 1776 to A.D. 1845''] (London: Lincoln's Inn, 1902).</ref>

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3266235 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Sources==
Read volume one of this book from the [http://archive.org/details/completemilton01milt Internet Archive].

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History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688

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<big>''The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688: in six volumes''</big>
===by David Hume===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume David Hume] (1711–1776) is considered one of the most accomplished philosophers to write in the English language. Influencing many of his famous contemporaries, Hume is well known for his work as a historian and essayist. He is considered to be a “precursor of contemporary cognitive science” and a driving force in philosophical naturalism.<ref>William Edward Morris, "[http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/hume/ David Hume]" in ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', accessed October 7, 2013.</ref> Born in Edinburgh, Hume attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh Edinburgh University] at a very young age.<ref>John Robertson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14141 Hume, David (1711–1776)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 7, 2013.</ref> His family intended for Hume to follow his father in law, but this was not to be. Instead, Hume devoted himself to philosophical study and writing, producing his first great work, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatise_of_Human_Nature ''A Treatise of Human Nature'',] in 1739.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Other works followed, including ''The History of England'', which was published in six volumes from 1754 to 1762 and became a best seller. The work spans English history from Caesar’s invasion to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution Glorious Revolution] of 1688.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/267616/History-of-England History of England]," accessed October 7, 2013.</ref> In this set, Hume attempts to give an “impartial account that looks at political institutions as historical developments responsive to Britons' experience of changing conditions, evaluating political decisions in the contexts in which they were made, instead of second-guessing them in the light of subsequent developments.”<ref>Morris, "David Hume."</ref> It was “unprecedentedly readable, in structure as well as in phrasing. Persons and events were woven into causal patterns that furnished a narrative with the goals and resting points of recurrent climaxes.”<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "History of England."</ref> Future history books would be based on the writing and styles of Hume’s ''History of England''.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> suggests Wythe owned this title based on the probable date (1762) of notes in [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] commonplace book.<ref>Thomas Jefferson, ''Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book'', ed. Douglas L. Wilson (Princetone: Princeton University Press, 1989), 38-40.</ref> Brown lists the 1762 edition because Jefferson purchased that set in 1764. However, he notes that the one Jefferson used from Wythe's library may have been an earlier edition. [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 9 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> lists "Hume" under the section of titles Wythe assigned to his students citing a reference in William Clarkin's biography of Wythe.<ref>William Clarkin, Serene Patriot: a Life of George Wythe'' (Albany: Alan Publications, 1970), 156.</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and added the 1762 edition of Hume's history.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with stamped decorative borders and gilt filets to covers. Spines feature five raised bands, gilt stamps and gilt lettering. Edges are marbled. Each volume includes a bookplate with the initial "T" and the motto "Nemo me impune lacessit" (No one attacks me with impunity.) surmounted by a crown. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3719557 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:HumeHistoryOfEngland1762v1TOCEndpiece.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Endpiece, table of contents, volume one.</center>]]
==References==
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[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton

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<big>''A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton: Correctly Printed from the Original Editions: with an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Containing Several Original Papers of His, Never Before Published''</big>
===by John Milton===
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}}[[File:MiltonCompleteWorks1738Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_milton John Milton] (1608-1674), was an English poet and polemicist, and a civil servant under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell Oliver Cromwell]. Best known for his canonical epic poem, ''Paradise Lost'', Milton began to write poetry in English and Latin at Cambridge in 1625.<ref>Gordon Campbell, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18800 Milton, John (1608–1674)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 26, 2013. All biographical information is from this source unless otherwise noted.</ref> From this early poetry one can see Milton’s critical view of Catholicism. His first published poem was a commendatory poem in the second published folio of Shakespeare’s work in 1632, titled “On Shakespeare.”<ref>W.P. Trent, “John Milton," ''The Sewanee Review'' 5, no. 1 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1897): 2-3.</ref> 
 
Greatly affected by the deaths of his mother and his friend and fellow poet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_King_%28British_poet%29 Edward King], Milton traveled abroad to Paris and throughout Italy in 1638.<ref>Pauline Lacy Smith, “John Milton as an Educator,” ''Peabody Journal of Education'' 23, no. 3 (Taylor & Francis, Ltd., Nov. 1945): 170-71.</ref> When he returned to England, Milton published five anti-prelatical pamphlets that criticize the governance of the Church. With the dissolution of his first marriage in 1642 he began to write extensively on divorce, saying that the breakdown of a marriage should constitute grounds for divorce.<ref>Trent, 8-9.</ref> 
 
Milton’s career from 1641-1674 fluctuated between a focus on poetry, political and religious criticisms, and histories. Milton’s political writings from 1649-1655 are marked by a disbelief in the divine right of kings, advocacy for a more republican government, and his controversial defense of regicide that made him infamous across Europe. He also wrote a formidable proposal for the reformation of the English education system<ref>Smith, 173.</ref>, treatises on the importance of a free press, and a treatise against the use of tithes. After becoming blind in 1652, Milton began to dictate his writing.<ref>W.H. Wilmer, “The Blindness of Milton,” ''The Journal of English and Germanic Philology'' 32, no. 3 (University of Illinois Press, July 1993): 308.</ref> 
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}}Milton’s political writing in the 1650s controversially challenged monarchy as the best form of government. Instead, he advocated for a republic comprised of a “Grand or Supreme Council” of virtuous aristocrats. This political philosophy of “republican exclusivism” greatly influenced the United States’ founding fathers, including [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref>Nathan R. Perl-Rosenthal, “The ‘Divine Right of Republics’: Hebraic Republicanism and the Debate over Kingless Government in Revolutionary America,” ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', 3rd ser., 66, no. 3 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Jul. 2009): 538.</ref> Jefferson specifically used Milton’s ideas that criticized the governance of the church to argue for the separation of church and state in Virginia. 
 
Milton's books were ordered to be burned and he was imprisoned in the Tower after the restoration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England Charles II] in 1660. Milton dictated ''Paradise Lost'' from around 1658-1663. This epic poem presents the story of Genesis, with shockingly humanized depictions of God, Satan, Adam and Eve. ''Paradise Regained'', somewhat a sequel to ''Paradise Lost'', depicts Jesus’ wanderings in the desert. It was published in 1671, along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Agonistes ''Samson Agonistes''.] Milton published ''History of Britain'' in 1671, though it was written in the 1650s. His last published work, shortly before his death in 1674, was a reorganized version of ''Paradise Lost'' in twelve books. 
 
“In life Milton was both praised and scorned; praised for his achievements in poetry and scorned for his writings on church and state.”<ref>''eNotes'', s.v. "[http://www.enotes.com/topics/john-milton/critical-essays/milton-john John Milton]," accessed October 23, 2013.</ref> In the eighteenth century, Milton’s work was “largely responsible for the shift from rhyme to blank verse, and also for many features of poetic diction and syntax.”<ref>Campbell, "Milton, John."</ref> Milton’s ''Paradise Lost'' permeated the arts, inspiring imitation and parody in written work. It also became the cornerstone for a focus on the “sublime,” as well as the inspiration for a focus on the picturesque in the visual art of the time.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Milton’s Prose works. 2.v. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Milton's Works (damaged)' (2 vols., $2.00 value)." The only two-volume, folio edition of Milton's works was published in 1738. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> include the 1738 edition, and this was the edition purchased by the Wolf Law Library.
[[File:MiltonCompleteWorks1738v1Inscription.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front free endpaper, volume one.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with matched period rebacking. Previous owner's inscription, "Samuel C. Lewis, London, Jan. 9, 1904" appears on the front free endpaper. Both volumes have the armorial bookplate of John Rigby with the Latin motto "Esse quam videri" (to be rather than to seem) on the front pastedown. This may be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rigby_(politician) Sir John Rigby], Attorney General and Lord Justice of Appeal.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=negyAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA459#v=onepage&q&f=false 549 ''The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn: The Black Books, Vol. IV: A.D. 1776 to A.D. 1845''] (London: Lincoln's Inn, 1902).</ref>

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3266235 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Sources==
Read volume one of this book from the [http://archive.org/details/completemilton01milt Internet Archive].

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History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688

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<big>''The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688: in six volumes''</big>
===by David Hume===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume David Hume] (1711–1776) is considered one of the most accomplished philosophers to write in the English language. Influencing many of his famous contemporaries, Hume is well known for his work as a historian and essayist. He is considered to be a “precursor of contemporary cognitive science” and a driving force in philosophical naturalism.<ref>William Edward Morris, "[http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/hume/ David Hume]" in ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', accessed October 7, 2013.</ref> Born in Edinburgh, Hume attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh Edinburgh University] at a very young age.<ref>John Robertson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14141 Hume, David (1711–1776)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 7, 2013.</ref> His family intended for Hume to follow his father in law, but this was not to be. Instead, Hume devoted himself to philosophical study and writing, producing his first great work, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatise_of_Human_Nature ''A Treatise of Human Nature'',] in 1739.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Other works followed, including ''The History of England'', which was published in six volumes from 1754 to 1762 and became a best seller. The work spans English history from Caesar’s invasion to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution Glorious Revolution] of 1688.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/267616/History-of-England History of England], accessed October 7, 2013.</ref> In this set, Hume attempts to give an “impartial account that looks at political institutions as historical developments responsive to Britons' experience of changing conditions, evaluating political decisions in the contexts in which they were made, instead of second-guessing them in the light of subsequent developments.”<ref>Morris, "David Hume."</ref> It was “unprecedentedly readable, in structure as well as in phrasing. Persons and events were woven into causal patterns that furnished a narrative with the goals and resting points of recurrent climaxes.”<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "History of England."</ref> Future history books would be based on the writing and styles of Hume’s ''History of England''.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> suggests Wythe owned this title based on the probable date (1762) of notes in [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] commonplace book.<ref>Thomas Jefferson, ''Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book'', ed. Douglas L. Wilson (Princetone: Princeton University Press, 1989), 38-40.</ref> Brown lists the 1762 edition because Jefferson purchased that set in 1764. However, he notes that the one Jefferson used from Wythe's library may have been an earlier edition. [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 9 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> lists "Hume" under the section of titles Wythe assigned to his students citing a reference in William Clarkin's biography of Wythe.<ref>William Clarkin, Serene Patriot: a Life of George Wythe'' (Albany: Alan Publications, 1970), 156.</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and added the 1762 edition of Hume's history.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with stamped decorative borders and gilt filets to covers. Spines feature five raised bands, gilt stamps and gilt lettering. Edges are marbled. Each volume includes a bookplate with the initial "T" and the motto "Nemo me impune lacessit" (No one attacks me with impunity.) surmounted by a crown. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3719557 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:HumeHistoryOfEngland1762v1TOCEndpiece.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Endpiece, table of contents, volume one.</center>]]
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History and Proceedings of the House of Lords

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<big>''The History and Proceedings of the House of Lords, from the Restoration in 1660, to the Present Time, Containing the Most Remarkable Motions, Speeches, Debates, Orders and Resolutions. ... and Illustrated with Historical Notes and Observations. Together with the Debates in the Parliament of Scotland Relating to the Union''</big>
===by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.===
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|editor=Ebenezer Timberland
|publoc=London
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}}''The History and Proceedings of the House of Lords, from the Restoration in 1660, to the Present Time'' was published in eight volumes by Ebenezer Timberland from 1742 to 1743.<ref>Stephen Taylor and Clyve Jones, eds., [http://books.google.com/books?id=k25iPt5t4YAC&pg=PR15&lpg=PR15&dq ''Tory and Whig: The Parliamentary Papers of Edward Harley, Third Earl of Oxford, and William Hay''] (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, Ltd., 1998), 15.</ref> It is often referred to as ''Timberland’s Debates'', or, along with its companion, Richard Chandler’s ''History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time'', as ''Chandler and Timberland’s Debates''.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
In 1806, William Cobbett published his ''Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to 1803'', which he intended to supersede previous collections of the speeches and debates of Parliament.<ref>Guy Carleton Lee, [http://books.google.com/books?id=HQQPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq ''Leading Documents of English History: Together with Illustrative Material from Contemporary Writers and a Bibliography of Sources''] (London: George Bell and Sons, 1900), 12-13.</ref> Cobbett found earlier collections, including ''Chandler and Timberland's Debates,'' were based on the reports of Parliamentary proceedings published in monthly magazines, focused on the most controversial debates, and were adapted from the notes of observers in the galleries rather than from official transcripts.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Despite these shortcomings, ''Chandler and Timberland’s Debates'' remained one of the major sources of knowledge of the proceedings of Parliament, especially before Cobbett’s publication.<ref>Lee, ''Leading Documents of English History''.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Debates in the H. of Lords 7.v. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. It later appeared on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Debates of Parliament' (19 vols., $20.50 value)." Both Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1742-1743 edition of ''The History and Proceedings of the House of Lords''. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.
[[File:HistoryAndProceedingsOfTheHouseOfLords1742v8Endpiece.jpg|left|thumb|200px|</center>Endpiece, last page of text, volume eight.<center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full calf with five raised bands, brown leather labels and gilt decoration on the spine. The set has marbled endpapers and includes the armorial bookplate of George Fermor, 2nd [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Pomfret Earl of Pomfret], Baron Leominster, on the front pastedown of each volume. Purchased from Titles, Inc. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3446792 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
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History and Proceedings of the House of Commons

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<big>''The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time Containing the Most Remarkable Motions, Speeches, Resolves, Reports And Conferences to be Met With in That Interval''</big>
===by Richard Chandler===
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}}[[File:HouseCommonsHistory1742StampV1.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Stamp of the Royal Historical Society, front pastedown, volume one.]]''The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time'' contains, "the most remarkable motions, speeches, resolves, reports and conferences to be met within that interval."<ref>Richard Chandler, ''The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time'' (London: Printed for Richard Chandler 1742), ii.</ref> Richard Chandler's (ca. 1713-1744) fourteen-volume work addresses the most significant political and historical happenings within the House of Commons between the years 1660 and 1743. Between speeches from the throne, parliamentary proceedings, and analyses of issues such as the national debt and expenses of war, this work provides one of the most significant compilations of historical and political proceedings in the 17th and 18th centuries.<ref>''House of Commons Parliamentary Pages'', s.v. “[http://parlipapers.chadwyck.com/collectionBrowse.do?expandtolevel=0&expand=I#I 18th Century],” accessed September 27, 2013.</ref> ''The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons'' is complete with notes from and about significant lawmakers and other figures of the time, and includes a detailed appendix. 
 
Originally printed by Richard Chandler in 1742, ''The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time'' was thought to be an "ambitious project" which Chandler set about completing entirely on his own. The 1742 printing was the first of two which, despite being supported by the prince of Wales, suffered vast financial losses, "Chandler's greatest achievement [proved to be] his downfall." The ambitious bookseller and entrepreneur took his own life as these financial problems began to bear down on him.<ref>C. Y. Ferdinand, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/5107Chandler, Richard (b. in or before 1713, d. 1744)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 27, 2013.</ref>

[[File:HouseCommonsHistory1742BookplateTPVersoV1.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Bookplate of James Edward Colleton ,title page verso, volume one.</center>]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Debates] in the H. of Commons. 13.v. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. It later appeared on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Debates of Parliament' (19 vols., $20.50 value)." Both Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the first edition (1742-1744) of ''The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons''. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.
[[File:HouseCommonsHistory1742InscriptionTPVersoV1.jpg|center|thumb|300px|<center>Inscription from title page verso, volume one.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full leather calf with original boards. Contains maroon leather label and gilt lettering on spine and purple stamp of the Royal Historical Society on the title pages and front pastedowns. Volumes one through five and nine through fourteen include the armorial bookplate of James Edward Colleton on the title page verso. Volume thirteen signed "Rich Chandler" on title page verso. Purchased from Ziern-Hanon Galleries. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3739361 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England

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<big>''The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641: With the Precedent Passages, and Actions, That Contributed Thereunto, and the Happy End, and Conclusion Thereof by the King's Blessed Restoration, and Return, upon the 29th of May, in the year 1660''</big>
===by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon===
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|author=Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
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}}[[File:ClarendonHistoryOfTheRebellion1701v1Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon] (1609–1674), gained admission to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Temple Middle Temple] in 1626 and was called to the bar in November of 1633.<ref>Paul Seaward, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14328 Hyde, Edward, first earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 2, 2013. All biographical information derived from this source unless otherwise noted.</ref> After spending some time in Parliament, he was made [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer Chancellor of the Exchequer] in 1643. In part because of this position and in part because of his close relationship with and support of the current royalty, Hyde had considerable firsthand experience to draw upon when writing his ''History on the Civil War in England''. He took an active part in supporting the church and the Crown throughout the war and following unrest, although his combat was political in nature. Eventually, after several rises and falls in favor with various political figures, Hyde was exiled to France, where he died in 1674.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
''The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England'' strongly supports a monarchy founded on law, with both church and constitution as a necessary aspect of sound government.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Hyde had high hopes for the reception of his book, and interspersed the history with his own autobiography.<ref>Dr. Martin Maw, [http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/newsitem/60/the-history-of-the-rebellion-and-civil-wars-in-england ''The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England''], Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (Jun 2013), accessed October 2, 2013.</ref> It received high praise when first published, but did not become popular, due in part to a copyright limited to Oxford, and in part to the complicated legal prose that proved too difficult for some.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Years later, Hyde’s history became recognized as containing style and sophistication that was unparalleled in its time.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Clarendon’s history. 3.v. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Clarendon's History of England' (3 vols., $9.00 value)." We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Several editions of this work in folio were published, the first at Oxford in 1707." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1707 Oxford edition, and this was the edition purchased by the Wolf Law Library.
[[File:ClarendonHistoryOfTheRebellion1701v2Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text, book seven, volume two.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebacked in sturdy brown leather with seven raised bands and title, author, etc in gilt. Purchased from Powell's Bookstores. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3270008 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
Read volume 1, part 1 in [http://books.google.com/books?id=e-cNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books]. 
Read volume 1, part 2 in [http://books.google.com/books?id=NsEOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].

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Debates Relative to the Affairs of Ireland in the Years 1763 and 1764

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===by Sir James Caldwell===
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}}Sir James Caldwell (c. 1720-1784), was deeply involved in the economic and political affairs of Ireland. "He maintained a wide correspondence with a great variety of public figures in Ireland and Britain and wrote some twenty-five pamphlets on aspects of the political, economic and military affairs of Ireland."<ref>Mervyn Busteed, "Sir James Caldwell, c.1720-84: An Anglo-Irish Landlord in the Age of Improvement," ''Irish Studies Review'' 9, no. 3 (2001): 320.</ref> ''Debates Relative to the Affairs of Ireland in the Year 1763 and 1764'' is a prime example of Caldwell's "considerable ability" as an author.<ref>David O'Donoghue, ''The Geographical Distribution of Irish Ability'' (Dublin: O'Donoghue and Co., 1906), 142.</ref> He kept excellent records due in part to "his unrelenting, but unsuccessful pursuit of an Irish peerage":<ref>Busteed, "Sir James Caldwell," 321.</ref>

<blockquote>"...I now suffer the anguish of disappointment and stand exposed as the Dupe of Sport or artifice, an insignificant retainer of state, cajoled and neglected, flattering myself with importance like the fly upon the wheel, officiously busy to render service that is despised and ridiculously elated with the hope of reward that never was intended to be conferred..."<ref>J.B. Cunningham, ''Castle Caldwell and its Families'' (Belleek: Water Gate Press, 1980), 81.</ref></blockquote/>

Caldwell was posthumously recognized for his widely acclaimed work on the debates of the Irish House of Commons. It is considered an important book on the primacy of parliamentary literature, in part because it was written from Caldwell's memory of his attendance of the sessions.<ref>John Almon, ''Biographical, Literary and Political Anecdotes of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the Present Age'' (London: Printed for T.N. Longman, and L.B. Seeley ..., 1797), 1:20.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Ordered by Wythe from John Norton & Sons in a [[Wythe to John Norton, 3 August 1769|letter]] dated August 3, 1769. Records indicate the order was fulfilled.<ref>Frances Norton Mason, ed., ''John Norton & Sons, Merchants of London and Virginia: Being the Papers from their Counting House for the Years 1750 to 1795'' (Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Press, 1937), 101. The letter is endorsed "Virga. Aug. 3d 1769/ George Wythe / recd. Octo. 18th pr. Brilliant / Ans. the March 1770 / pr. ''Brilliant''."</ref> Also listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "'Irish Debates. 2.v. 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'[Irish] Debates' (2 vols., $1.00 value)." In her 1958 [[http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml|work] on the George Wythe House, Mary R. M. Goodwin merely lists the title ''Debates of the Parliament of Ireland'' without providing supporting bibliographical information.<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings''] (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLVII.</ref> [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 7 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> suggests the 1689 publication, ''A True Account of the Whole Proceedings of the Parliament in Ireland, beginning March 25, 1689''. The other two [[George Wythe Collection|Wythe Collection]] sources, Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing, include the 1766 publication by Sir James Caldwell, ''Debates Relative to the Affairs of Ireland in the Years 1763 and 1764'', as the probable title owned by Wythe. The Wolf Law Library concurred with their identification and purchased a copy of this set.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in original calf with title in gilt on spine. Purchased from Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries, Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473584 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=BDM2AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].

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Rerum Scoticarum Historia

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===by George Buchanan===
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|lang=Latin
|publoc=Amsterodami
|publisher=Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium
|year=1643
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}}[[File:BuchananRerumScotiacarumHistoria1643InitialCapital.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Buchanan George Buchanan] (1506-1582) was a noted Scottish humanist, historian, and poet.<ref>''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/columency/buchanan_george Buchanan, George]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> He was educated at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_St_Andrews St. Andrews University] and in Paris. Buchanan's career was characteristically humanistic: that of teacher, tutor for children of nobility, translator, and poet. While a Latin teacher in Paris, his attacks on the Franciscans landed him in jail for heresy. He later escaped and taught in various locations around Europe, where he translated Latin and wrote original dramas.<ref>''Britannica Concise Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/ebconcise/buchanan_george Buchanan, George]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> By 1562, Buchanan had returned to Scotland and gained a place in the court of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots Queen Mary].<ref>D. M. Abbott, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3837 Buchanan, George (1506–1582)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 8, 2013.</ref> His place at the Scottish court continued after Mary's abdication and imprisonment, and Buchanan served for some time as one of the tutors to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I King James].<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Buchanan’s "most substantial work",<ref>Ibid.</ref> ''Rerum Scoticarum Historia'', is a monumental but unreliable history of Scotland, completed shortly before his death.<ref>''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/chambbd/buchanan_george Buchanan, George]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> It was immediately translated into other European languages, and for at least two centuries it remained the primary source of Scottish history for most foreigners.<ref>''Dictionary of National Biography'', s.v. "Buchanan, George (1506-1582)" (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1886), 192.</ref> "Its different parts are of unequal merit ... [t]he first of its twenty books contain the best portions, a description of the physical characteristics of the country, and an erudite collection of passages from Greek and Latin writers relating to Britain."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Perhaps of more interest to eighteenth century colonials, "[t]he doctrine that underlay Buchanan's political theory was ... fundamental to his historical writings. He stated that the source of power was the people, that the king must accept limitations upon the authority committed to him, and that it was lawful to resist and punish tyrants."<ref>Abbott, "Buchanan, George."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe referred to Buchanan's ''History'' in a [[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 13 December 1786|letter to Jefferson]] from 1786. The title is also listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Buchanani historia Scotiae. 8vo.'' [[Thomas Jefferson]] gave Wythe's copy to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. Numerous octavo editions were published beginning in 1643. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates as much without choosing an edition. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1727 edition in part based on the existence of that edition in Jefferson's library.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:190-191 [no.434].</ref> The Wolf Law Library found a copy of the first octavo edition (1643) and purchased it.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Fully bound in contemporary white sheepskin with hand-painted lettering on spine, including volume number. The cover is stitched to leaves using small leather strips across the front and back of the spine. Purchased from Sequitur Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473588 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
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Remarks on the History of England

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Remarks on the History of England: From the Minutes of Humphry Oldcastle''}}
===by Henry St. John Bolingbroke===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_St_John,_1st_Viscount_Bolingbroke Henry St. John, the first Viscount Bolingbroke], lived from September 16, 1678 to December 12, 1751. Bolingbroke had a tenuous career in English politics and government.<ref>H. T. Dickinson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24496 St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751)] in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 2, 2013.</ref> He served in Parliament for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory_%28British_political_party%29 Tory party] and in government as Secretary at War and Secretary of State.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/72043/Henry-Saint-John-1st-Viscount-Bolingbroke-Baron-Saint-John-of-Lydiard-Tregoze Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]," accessed October 2, 2013.</ref> After the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whigs_%28British_political_party%29 Whigs] had a favorable election in 1715, and without support from the newly ascended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain King George I], Bolingbroke feared repercussions due to his involvement in peace negotiations with France and fled England.<ref>Dickinson, "St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke."</ref> Although Bolingbroke evaded arrest, an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder act of attainder] found him guilty and, as a result, he lost the rights to his property and title.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1723, Bolingbroke received a pardon that allowed him to purchase new property in England.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Still concerned with politics and determined to undermine King George’s chief minister, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole Robert Walpole], in 1730 and 1731 Bolingbroke wrote twenty-two essays for ''The Craftsman'' under the name Humphrey Oldcastle.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ''The Remarks on the History of England'' comprises these essays.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In this work, Bolingbroke provided examples “of royal favourites and corrupt ministers undermining the constitution by corrupt methods, financial jobbery, crown patronage, continental alliances, and military adventures. The reader was always meant to equate Walpole and his methods with those of previous evil counsellors who had threatened the true interests of the people.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> Bolingbroke’s works were designed to “to weld the disparate elements of the opposition to Walpole into a new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Party_(Britain) Country Party], which would protect the independence of Parliament against the encroachments of a corrupt government.”<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Bolingbroke]’s Oldcastle’s remarks 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Olecastle's remarks on H. of England' ($1.50 value)." We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 18, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Octavo editions were published at London in 1743, 1747, 1754, and 1776." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the first edition published in 1743 and this is the edition purchased by the Wolf Law Library.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full contemporary brown calf over cords, covers ruled in gilt. Includes the armorial bookplate of W. Wynne on the front pastedown. Purchased from D&D Galleries. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473889 William & Mary's online catalog.]
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Letter to Sir William Windham

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''A Letter to Sir William Windham ; II. Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation ; III. A Letter to Mr. Pope''}}
===by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke===
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}}[[File:BolingbrokeLetterToSirWilliamWindham1753Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_St_John,_1st_Viscount_Bolingbroke Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke] (1678-1751), was a politician, diplomatist, and an author. His political career was defined by his association with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory_%28British_political_party%29 Tory party] and his antireligious views. His first years in Parliament saw a sharp increase in Tory political power due to dissatisfaction with the reign of the foreign king [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England William III] and the privileged position of power of the Church of England. Somewhat ironically, Bolingbroke staunchly opposed the doctrine of “divine right,” while vigorously supporting the royal prerogative. Bolingbroke’s reputation was mixed. Many saw him as ruthlessly ambitious, pointing to the fact that he often betrayed close compatriots to further his career. Eventually, he became Secretary of State from 1710-1714. He would eventually be charged with treason for his support of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rebellion_of_1715 Jacobite Cause] and would flee to France, only to be pardoned and return to England later in his life. In the end, Bolingbroke's writings would have a more lasting and direct influence in the formation of the United States government and republican ideals than his mixed political career.<ref>H. T. Dickinson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24496 St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 10, 2013.</ref> 
 
Bolingbroke's collected works, including "A Letter to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Wyndham,_3rd_Baronet Sir William Windham]," "Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation," and "A Letter to Mr. Pope", are foundational in the literature surrounding republican ideals of government. Bolingbroke’s writings were particularly popular among the founders of the United States, including [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams John Adams], [[Thomas Jefferson]], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison James Madison]. Adams claimed to have read Bolingbroke’s works at least five times. Bolingbroke’s focus on the liberty afforded by the Rule of Law was considered by many of the founding fathers as the bedrock of any republic government.<ref>Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, eds., ''Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe'', Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, vol. 1, (West Nyack, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 41.</ref>
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Bolingbroke to Windham 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Octavo editions were published at London in 1753 and 1787." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the first edition published in 1753, and this is the edition purchased by the Wolf Law Library.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period-style quarter calf with marbled boards. Includes the bookplate of David Warner Dumas, "1968" on the front pastedown. Purchased from Brookline Village Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3465870 William & Mary's online catalog.]

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Xenophontos Hellenika

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<big>''Ta tou Xenophontos Hellenika : kai ho Agesilaos = : Xenophontis Graecorum res gestae : et Agesilaus''</big>
===by Xenophon===
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|author=Xenophon
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon Xenophon] (c.428-c.354 BCE) was an Athenian historian and disciple of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates Socrates] who had a somewhat turbulent relationship with his home city. He was born into a wealthy family and supported the short-lived oligarchic government of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Athens Athens] established in 411 BCE, which likely made it difficult for him when the democratic government was reinstated.<ref>M.C. Howatson, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-3115 Xe'nophon] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> In 401, Xenophon joined a mercenary army and went on an expedition with the newly deceased Persian king’s son and commander [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Younger Cyrus the Younger] who attempted to take the throne from his older brother.<ref>M.C. Howatson, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-0913 Cȳrus]" in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> After the failure of that attempted coup and Cyrus’s death, Xenophon returned to Greece with the rest of Cyrus’s army, for whose "lawless behavior" Xenophon was made responsible<ref>G.L. Cawkwell, "Agesilaus and Sparta," ''The Classical Quarterly'', n.s., 26, no. 1 (1976): 64.</ref> until he impressed and joined the service of Spartan king [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agesilaus_II Agesilaus] in 396 BCE and fought on the Spartan side against Athens and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeotia Boeotia] in 394. Either for this treachery or earlier incidents, Xenophon was exiled from Athens and his property confiscated. The Spartans gave him an estate near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia,_Greece Olympia] and the position of entertaining visiting Spartans. For the next twenty years he did just that, while also writing his many books. Xenophon was forced from Olympia and moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Corinth Corinth] in 371 BCE, then back to Athens in 366 BCE after all Athenians were banished from Corinth. (His exile from Athens was likely revoked around 368 BCE).<ref>Howatson, "Xe'nophon.”</ref> 
 All known parts of the vast number of works that Xenophon produced have survived to the modern day. Most are in the three categories of "long (quasi-) historical narratives, Socratic texts, and technical treatises."<ref>John Roberts, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-2373 Xenophon]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> This particular edition of Xenophon’s works contains his ''Hellenica'' and ''Agesilaus''. The former is a chronological account of key military events from 411 BCE to 362 BCE contained in seven books. In these events, Xenophon combines historical narratives with starkly honest expositions of the shortcomings of different states, including Sparta. The latter work included in this volume is a posthumous biography of the Spartan king Agesilaus with whom Xenophon had a long and close relationship. Though the chronology is uneven and adds nothing about the king not already included in ''Hellenica'', the work was crucial to the development of biography. Additionally, the list of principal virtues of “a perfectly good man” reveals Greek expectations and standards of the time.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Xenophontis historia. 4.v. 8vo. Foulis'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[John Wayles Eppes]]. According to Philip Gaskell's bibliography, the Foulis Press published Xenophon's ''Hellenica and Agesilaus'' once, in 1762.<ref>Philip Gaskell, ''A Bibliography of The Foulis Press'', 2nd ed. (Winchester, Hampshire, England : St Paul's Bibliographies, 1986), 248.</ref> Both Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include this title as the one intended by Jefferson's notation. The Wolf Law Library purchased the 1762.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full brown calf with red calf labels to spine. Purchased from Schooner Books Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3623426 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
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Spartan Lessons

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===by Tyrtaeus===
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|publoc=Glasgow
|publisher=Robert and Andrew Foulis
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}}[[File:TyrtaeusSpartanLessons1759Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Illustration.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrtaeus Tyrtaeus] (685-668 BCE) was a Greek elegiac poet, probably born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta Sparta]. His war songs inspired the Spartans during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Messenian_War second Messenian War] (650-630 B.C.E.)<ref>''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/chambbd/tyrtaeus Tyrtaeus]," accessed September 27, 2013.</ref> and are examples of early Spartan militarism.<ref>''The Hutchinson Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/heliconhe/tyrtaeus_lived_7th_century_bc Tyrtaeus (lived 7th century BC)]," accessed September 27, 2013.</ref> The name Tyrtaeus has been given to many martial poets who have encouraged their countrymen to deeds of arms and victory.<ref>''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/brewerphrase/tyrtaeus Tyrtaeus]," accessed September 27, 2013.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Tyrtaeus. Gr. Lat. 4to. Foul.'' This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. According to Philip Gaskell, the Foulis Press published one volume of Tyrtaeus, ''Spartan Lessons'', in 1759.<ref>Philip Gaskell, ''A Bibliography of The Foulis Press'', 2nd ed. (Winchester, Hampshire, England: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1986), 233-234.</ref> Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]" accessed on February 20, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list this work. Millicent Sowerby also included it in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:474 [no.4397].</ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. The Wolf Law Library acquired a copy of the 1759 Foulis Press edition for the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in green quarter-calf with marbled boards. Spine features raised bands and gilt lettering. Includes marbled endpapers and pencil inscription "1579" on title page.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3475207 William & Mary's online catalog].
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Thoukydidou peri tou Peloponnēsiakou Polemou Biblia Oktō

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<big>''Thoukydidou peri tou Peloponnēsiakou Polemou Biblia Oktō = Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo''</big>
===by Thucydides===
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|author=Thucydides
|editor=Henricus Stephanus
|lang=Ancient Greek
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}}[[File:ThucydidesThoukydidouPeriTouPeloponnesiakou1731Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Illustration.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides Thucydides] (c. 460 BCE–c. 395 BCE) has gone down in history as one of the great ancient historians, despite the fact that (possibly because) he wrote only one book: ''History of the Peloponnesian War''.<ref>John Roberts, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-2194 Thucydidēs]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> The ''History'' consists of eight books, roughly divided into five parts or themes that cover [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_War the war between Athens and Sparta] (431-404 BCE) until the winter of 411/410 BCE. Continuations by other historians to complete Thucydides’ history of the war are now lost, and the original portions of the eight books are also not complete.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Thucydides intended his history to be used as instructive and accurate record of what he viewed as the most important war in Greek history. In 424 BCE, as a general or ''strategos'', Thucydides failed to save the valuable Athenian colony of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipolis Amphipolis] from Spartan attack. As a result, he was exiled and did not return to Athens until 404 BCE. His absence for most of the Peloponnesian War inspired him “to gain first-hand information from both sides and to have a clearer perspective.”<ref>M.C. Howatson, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-2939 Thūcy'didēs] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> Though Thucydides strived for “exactness,” he also used a great many speeches in his history, and admitted that it was near impossible to have fully accurate speeches. In these situations, Thucydides allowed himself to trust his “historical imagination” in order to dramatically demonstrate “the workings of men’s minds and the impact of circumstance.” <ref>Roberts, "Thucydidēs."</ref> His focus on accuracy is seen through the lack of divine explanations for any events, but his impartiality has been questioned, especially in reference to his favorable view of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles Pericles] and unjustifiably negative depiction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleon Cleon]. Overall, the serious nature of the writing illuminates Thucydides’ focus on historical fact and analysis.<ref>Howatson, "Thūcy'didēs.”</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Th]ucydides Gr. Lat. notis variorum. Dukeri fol.'' This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 19, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the 1731 edition published in Amsterdam. This is also the edition Millicent Sowerby's included in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:8 [no.15].</ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. The Wolf Law Library chose to add the edition suggested by Sowerby, Brown, and LibraryThing.
[[File:ThucydidesThoukydidouPeriTouPeloponnesiakou1731Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscriptions, front free endpaper.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary blind-stamped Dutch vellum with spine lettered in ink. Includes signature of "John D. Spicer, 1958" and the inscription "James Reed ex bono E.C.(?) Woodcock, 1789." Purchased from Blackwell's Rare Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3623427 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=m2hZAAAAYAAJ&dq=Thoukydidou+peri+tou+Peloponn%C4%93siakou+Polemou+Biblia+Okt%C5%8D&source=gbs_navlinks_s Google Books].

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History of the Peloponnesian War

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===by Thucydides===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides Thucydides] (c. 460 BCE–c. 395 BCE) has gone down in history as one of the great ancient historians, despite the fact that (possibly because) he wrote only one book: ''History of the Peloponnesian War''.<ref>John Roberts, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-2194 Thucydidēs]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> The ''History'' consists of eight books, roughly divided into five parts or themes that cover [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_War the war between Athens and Sparta] (431-404 BCE) until the winter of 411/410 BCE. Continuations by other historians to complete Thucydides’ history of the war are now lost, and the original portions of the eight books are also not complete.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Thucydides intended his history to be used as an instructive and accurate record of what he viewed as the most important war in Greek history. In 424 BCE, as a general or ''strategos'', Thucydides failed to save the valuable Athenian colony of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipolis Amphipolis] from Spartan attack. As a result, he was exiled and did not return to Athens until 404 BCE. His absence for most of the Peloponnesian War inspired him “to gain first-hand information from both sides and to have a clearer perspective.”<ref>M.C. Howatson, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-2939 Thūcy'didēs]" in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> Though Thucydides strived for “exactness,” he also used a great many speeches in his history, and admitted that it was near impossible to have fully accurate speeches. In these situations, Thucydides allowed himself to trust his “historical imagination” in order to dramatically demonstrate “the workings of men’s minds and the impact of circumstance.” <ref>Roberts, "Thucydidēs."</ref> His focus on accuracy is seen through the lack of divine explanations for any events, but his impartiality has been questioned, especially in reference to his favorable view of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles Pericles] and unjustifiably negative depiction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleon Cleon]. Overall, the serious nature of the writing illuminates Thucydides’ focus on historical fact and analysis.<ref>Howatson, "Thūcy'didēs.”</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Thucydides Eng. by Smith. 2.v. 4to.'' This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 19, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the 1753 edition published in London based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress in 1815.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:9 [no.17].</ref> Jefferson's copy still exists but it includes no definitive ties to Wythe. There are "manuscript notes ... and pencil notes of a much later date" which may link the volume to Wythe. The Wolf Law Library added a copy of this edition.
[[File:ThucydidesHistoryOfThePeloponnesianWar1753Headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full paneled calf with blind tooled decoration and expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid on. Has raised bands with the earlier label in gilt lettered morocco and all edges in red. Includes the bookplate of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toft_Hall Toft Hall]. Purchased from Roger Middleton Fine and Rare Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3446408 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=WvULAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books]. 
Read volume two of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=WvULAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].

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C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, Quae Exstant

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<big>''C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, Quae Exstant: J. Lipsii, Rhennani, Ursini ... & Selectis Aliorum Commentariis Illustrata''</big>
===by Cornelius Tacitus===
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|editor=Joannes Gronovius and Jacobus Gronovius
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus (Publius) Cornelius Tacitus] was born in Roman-governed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Gaul Gaul] around 56 CE. His senatorial career progressed quickly, helped along, no doubt, by his marriage in 77 CE to the daughter of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus_Julius_Agricola Iulius Agricola], the Roman general and seven-year governor of Britain. 
 
Tacitus’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricola_%28book%29 first work], published in 98 CE, was a biography and funerary tribute to his father-in-law, assuring his surviving widow and daughter that Agricola would “live on” through the work.<ref>John Roberts, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-2128 Tacitus]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> Shortly following this was his ethnographical monograph ''Germania''. Tacitus’s most famous work is his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histories_%28Tacitus%29 ''Histories''], which contained twelve or fourteen books covering the period of 69-96 CE. Unlike other historians of his time, Tacitus wanted to entertain his readers with vivid and emotional stories. Consequently, his facts often were confusing or absent from the work. As none of his sources survive to this day, Tacitus’s works can be viewed as entirely his own. His poetic writing style, highlighted by his extensive use of metaphor, elevated his writing to a level beyond historical prose. However, it must, as with all other ancient histories, be taken with a grain of salt as to historical accuracy due to the common convention of elaboration or pure invention to “make his narrative more colourful and exciting.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
''C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, Quae Exstant'' contains the extant works of Tacitus in two volumes. It was published in Amsterdam in 1672-73. The main focus of the first volume is Tacitus’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_%28Tacitus%29 ''Annals''], though it also includes excerpts from incomplete books of the ''Annals''. The second volume contains Tacitus’s “The Death of Nero and the Beginning of Galba”, “On the death of Nero, The Histories” Books 1-5, “A Pamphlet on the Situation, Behavior, and People of Germany,” “The Life of Julius Agricola,” “Dialogues” and the Index.
[[File:TacitusCCorneliiTacitiOpera1672HalfTitle.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Half-title, volume one.</center>]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Tacitus. Varior. 2.v. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on February 20, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this without further identifying an edition. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the 1672 edition published in Amsterdam based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:37-38 [no.80].</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the 1672 edition edited by Joannes and Jacob Gronovius.
[[File:TacitusCCorneliiTacitiOpera1672V2Inscription.jpg|right|thumb|300px|<center>Inscription, front free endpaper, volume two.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary vellum over boards with a hand-lettered spine. Signatures of "C. Brodribb, 1949," and "Richard M. C-B Green, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1967" on the front free endpaper of volume one. Richard Green also signed volume two on the front free endpaper. Both volumes include the bookplates of "Collegii Sti Augustini" (St. Augustine College, Canterbury) on the front pastedown. Purchased from Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3638986 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=5uIrAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].

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[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

C. Suetonii Tranquilli Opera Omnia Quae Extant

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===by Suetonius===
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}}Little is known about the private life of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus] (c. 69–after 122 CE) beyond his birth into an equestrian (upper-middle class) family and being the son of a military tribune. By around 97 CE, Suetonius had formed a friendship with the lawyer and author [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger Pliny the Younger], and had established a reputation in Rome as an author and scholar. Pliny’s patronage proved important to his rise in fame and power. During the reigns of emperors [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan Trajan] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian Hadrian], Suetonius “held three important posts in the imperial administration: literary adviser, librarian, correspondence secretary.”<ref>John Roberts, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-2103 Suētōnius]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> In 121 or 122 CE, Suetonius lost his job under Hadrian, and therefore his unrestricted access to the imperial archives, for some form of personal indiscretion – rumored to involve the empress. There is no personal information about him after this time.<ref>M.C. Howatson, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-2823 Suetō'nius]" in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> 
[[File:CSuetoniiTranquilliOperaOmnia1718Headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
Though his writing interests were varied, Suetonius is best known as a biographer – or even more specifically, as an imperial biographer. His ''On Famous Men'' is a collection of biographies of well-known and educated Roman men organized into categories of their work. This collection is now incomplete, but originally may have contained as many as 100 biographies. The sections on grammaticians and rhetoricians, as well as other sections and fragments were preserved through other authors’ works. Besides [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Nepos Cornelius Nepos], Suetonius is the earliest Roman biographer whose work has survived.<ref>Roberts, “Suētōnius."</ref> Suetonius’ ''Lives of the Caesars'' cover [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Julius Caesar] and the first eleven emperors: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus Augustus], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius Tiberius], Gaius ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula Caligula]), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius Claudius], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero Nero], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galba Galba], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otho Otho], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellius Vitellius], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian Vespasian], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus Titus], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitian Domitian]. These biographies follow a certain thematic pattern, beginning with the ancestry and early life, then imperial successes and personal characteristics. In most of the biographies, the individual’s death concludes the ''Life'', though in some there is a description of the appearance. The length, use of quotations, and thorough nature of the first two biographies, on Julius Caesar and Augustus, indicate that Suetonius was interested in the changing government and that he had only completed those two biographies before he was dismissed by Hadrian and no longer had access to the imperial archives.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 This particular edition is “All the Remaining Works of Suetonius” including both ''On Famous Men'' and ''Lives of the Caesars''.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Suetonius. Delph. 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on February 20, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing list the 1718 edition published in London. The Wolf Law Library followed their recommendations and purchased the edition known as the "[http://www.spamula.net/col/archives/2006/05/on_the_editions_1.html Delphini]" edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in recent half marron morocco over marbled boards, black morocco label on gilt-decorated spine. Title page has early owner's name eradicated.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3621019 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
<references/>

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[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

C. Suetonii Tranquilli Opera Omnia Quae Extant

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===by Suetonius===
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}}Little is known about the private life of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus] (c. 69–after 122 CE) beyond his birth into an equestrian (upper-middle class) family and being the son of a military tribune. By around 97 CE, Suetonius had formed a friendship with the lawyer and author [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger Pliny the Younger], and had established a reputation in Rome as an author and scholar. Pliny’s patronage proved important to his rise in fame and power. During the reigns of emperors [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan Trajan] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian Hadrian], Suetonius “held three important posts in the imperial administration: literary adviser, librarian, correspondence secretary.”<ref>John Roberts, ed. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-2103 Suētōnius]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> In 121 or 122 CE, Suetonius lost his job under Hadrian, and therefore his unrestricted access to the imperial archives, for some form of personal indiscretion – rumored to involve the empress. There is no personal information about him after this time.<ref>M.C. Howatson, ed., "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-2823 Suetō'nius]" in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> 
[[File:CSuetoniiTranquilliOperaOmnia1718Headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
Though his writing interests were varied, Suetonius is best known as a biographer – or even more specifically, as an imperial biographer. His ''On Famous Men'' is a collection of biographies of well-known and educated Roman men organized into categories of their work. This collection is now incomplete, but originally may have contained as many as 100 biographies. The sections on grammaticians and rhetoricians, as well as other sections and fragments were preserved through other authors’ works. Besides [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Nepos Cornelius Nepos], Suetonius is the earliest Roman biographer whose work has survived.<ref>Roberts, “Suētōnius."</ref> Suetonius’ ''Lives of the Caesars'' cover [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Julius Caesar] and the first eleven emperors: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus Augustus], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius Tiberius], Gaius ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula Caligula]), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius Claudius], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero Nero], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galba Galba], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otho Otho], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellius Vitellius], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian Vespasian], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus Titus], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitian Domitian]. These biographies follow a certain thematic pattern, beginning with the ancestry and early life, then imperial successes and personal characteristics. In most of the biographies, the individual’s death concludes the ''Life'', though in some there is a description of the appearance. The length, use of quotations, and thorough nature of the first two biographies, on Julius Caesar and Augustus, indicate that Suetonius was interested in the changing government and that he had only completed those two biographies before he was dismissed by Hadrian and no longer had access to the imperial archives.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 This particular edition is “All the Remaining Works of Suetonius” including both ''On Famous Men'' and ''Lives of the Caesars''.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Suetonius. Delph. 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on February 20, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing list the 1718 edition published in London. The Wolf Law Library followed their recommendations and purchased the edition known as the "[http://www.spamula.net/col/archives/2006/05/on_the_editions_1.html Delphini]" edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in recent half marron morocco over marbled boards, black morocco label on gilt-decorated spine. Title page has early owner's name eradicated.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3621019 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
<references/>

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[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Lettres sur l'Égypte

2014-04-28T13:08:22Z

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<big>''Lettres sur l'Égypte, Où l'on Offre le Parallèle des Moeurs Anciennes & Modernes de Ses Habitans, Où L'on Décrit L'état, le Commerce, l'Agriculture, le Gouvernement du Pays, & la Descente de S. Louis À Damiette, Tirée de Joinville & des Auteurs Arabes, avec des Cartes Géographiques''</big>
===by M. Claude Etienne Savary===
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|year=1785-1786
|set=3
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}}[[File:SavaryLettresSurLEgypte1785v2Map.jpg |left|thumb|300px|<center>Map of Egypt, volume two.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Étienne_Savary Claude-Étienne Savary] (1750-1788) traveled to Egypt in 1776 and remained there for three years.<ref>Louis-Gabriel Michaud, ed., ''Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne: Histoire par Ordre Alphabétique de la Vie Publique et Privée de Tous les Hommes qui sont Fait Remarquer par Leurs écrits, Leurs Actions, Leurs Talents, Leurs Virtues ou Leurs Crimes'' (Paris: Chez Madame C. Desplaces, 1843), 108-109.</ref> His three volume ''Lettres sur l’Egypte'' includes not only his own personal recollections, but also observations about ancient and modern Egypt that he drew in part from Arab authors little known to his European audience.<ref>Robert Kerr, ''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Process of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time'' (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1824), 18:596.</ref> Savary’s writing was highly praised at the time of its publication for its “picturesque style” and “vivid descriptions.”<ref>Michaud, ''Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne''.</ref> The ''Lettres'' were translated into English, German, Dutch, and Swedish.<ref>Kerr, ''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels''.</ref> However, the work did garner criticism from those who felt the book was more novel than nonfiction, that Savary’s observations were exaggerated, and that he was prone to making mistakes when calculating dates.<ref>Michaud, ''Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne''.</ref> By the ninteenth century, the ''Lettres'' had lost much of their popularity, due to the aforementioned reasons and because Savary’s writing was considered overly extravagant.<ref>Kerr, ''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels''.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Lettres de Savary sur l’Egypte 3.v. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Jefferson sent the set to Wythe while he served as Minister to France.<ref>See: [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 September 1787]].</ref> A copy of the second edition, published in 1786, at the University of Virginia includes the signatures "T. M. Randolph" and "G. Randolph" but has no markings linking it to Wythe. Nevertheless, both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 19, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the University of Virginia copy and use its edition information to identify Wythe's copy. The Wolf Law Library followed their lead and purchased the second edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full mottled calf bindings with gilt decorated spines and head and tail pieces throughout. Volume one stamped "Library of Congress surplus duplicate" on verson of front free endpaper and "20 AUG 1968, 7-COPY" on title page. Volumes two and three stamped "20 AUG 1968, 7-COPY" on half-titles. Purchased from Eveleigh Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473891 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:SavaryLettresSurLEgypte1785v3Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text, volume three.</center>]]
==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume two of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=mtsRAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books].

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Lettres sur l'Égypte

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<big>''Lettres sur l'Égypte, Où l'on Offre le Parallèle des Moeurs Anciennes & Modernes de Ses Habitans, Où L'on Décrit L'état, le Commerce, l'Agriculture, le Gouvernement du Pays, & la Descente de S. Louis À Damiette, Tirée de Joinville & des Auteurs Arabes, avec des Cartes Géographiques''</big>
===by M. Claude Etienne Savary===
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}}[[File:SavaryLettresSurLEgypte1785v2Map.jpg |left|thumb|300px|<center>Map of Egypt, volume two.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Étienne_Savary Claude-Étienne Savary] (1750-1788) traveled to Egypt in 1776 and remained there for three years.<ref>Louis-Gabriel Michaud, ed., ''Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne: Histoire par Ordre Alphabétique de la Vie Publique et Privée de Tous les Hommes qui sont Fait Remarquer par Leurs écrits, Leurs Actions, Leurs Talents, Leurs Virtues ou Leurs Crimes'' (Paris: Chez Madame C. Desplaces, 1843), 108-109.</ref> His three volume ''Lettres sur l’Egypte'' includes not only his own personal recollections, but also observations about ancient and modern Egypt that he drew in part from Arab authors little known to his European audience.<ref>Robert Kerr, ''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Process of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time'' (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1824), 18:596.</ref> Savary’s writing was highly praised at the time of its publication for its “picturesque style” and “vivid descriptions.”<ref>Michaud, ''Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne''.</ref> The ''Lettres'' were translated into English, German, Dutch, and Swedish.<ref>Kerr, ''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels''.</ref> However, the work did garner criticism from those who felt the book was more novel than nonfiction, that Savary’s observations were exaggerated, and that he was prone to making mistakes when calculating dates.<ref>Michaud, ''Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne''.</ref> By the ninteenth century, the ''Lettres'' had lost much of their popularity, due to the aforementioned reasons and because Savary’s writing was considered overly extravagant.<ref>Kerr, ''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels''.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Lettres de Savary sur l’Egypte 3.v. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Jefferson sent the set to Wythe while he served as Minister to France.<ref>See: [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 September 1787]]</ref> A copy of the second edition, published in 1786, at the University of Virginia includes the signatures "T. M. Randolph" and "G. Randolph" but has no markings linking it to Wythe. Nevertheless, both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 19, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the University of Virginia copy and use its edition information to identify Wythe's copy. The Wolf Law Library followed their lead and purchased the second edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full mottled calf bindings with gilt decorated spines and head and tail pieces throughout. Volume one stamped "Library of Congress surplus duplicate" on verson of front free endpaper and "20 AUG 1968, 7-COPY" on title page. Volumes two and three stamped "20 AUG 1968, 7-COPY" on half-titles. Purchased from Eveleigh Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473891 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:SavaryLettresSurLEgypte1785v3Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text, volume three.</center>]]
==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume two of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=mtsRAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books].

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Archaeologia Graeca

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<big>''Archæologia Græca: or, The Antiquities of Greece''</big>
===by John Potter===
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|author=John Potter
|edition=Fifth
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed for J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. and B. Sprint, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth, R. Robinson, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborne, T. Longman, W. Mears, and A. Ward
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Potter_(bishop) John Potter] (1673/4-1747), born in Yorkshire, England, was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College,_Oxford University College at Oxford]. His years in Oxford led him to join the Church of England and abandon the Presbyterian faith of his father, which caused a complete breach with his family. 1694 saw Potter's election as Yorkshire fellow of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_College,_Oxford Lincoln College]; he remained in that position until 1706.<ref>Rebecca Louise Warner, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/22612 Potter, John (1673/4–1747)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 24, 2013.</ref> During his time at Lincoln College, around the age of twenty-four, Potter became a rector. Further clerical positions followed: deacon, ordained priest, chaplain to the archbishop of Canterbury, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Oxford bishop of Oxford]. In 1737, he was appointed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury archbishop of Canterbury], a position he held until his death ten years later.<ref>''Encyclopedia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/93055/archbishop-of-Canterbury archbishop of Canterbury]," accessed October 18, 2013.</ref> 
 
Potter published several works on the rights of the church in which he opposed contemporary efforts at reform. In addition to these, Potter, skilled in Greek and very interested in classical history, enjoyed a noted reputation for his historical works on ancient Greece such as ''Archæologia Græca''. Originally published in 1697 and 1698, ''Archæologia Græca'' has been praised thus, "The warm eulogies of Gronovius attest the merit of this celebrated work. Potter ... had of course availed himself of the writings of Meursius, but he has also contributed to supersede them."<ref>Henry Hallam, ''Introduction to the Literature of Europe from the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries'', 4th ed. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1854), 3:254.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Potter’s antiquities. 2.v. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the seventh edition published in London in 1751 based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:19-20 [no.40].</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Numerous two-volume editions in octavo were published, the first in 1706." Because we do not know the actual edition owned by Wythe, the Wolf Law Library purchased an available copy of the fifth London edition (1728).

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
[[File:PotterArchaeologiaGraeca1728V1Chap1.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>First page of text, volume one.</center>]]

Bound in contemporary tooled, paneled calf with red calf spine labels. Contains a dollop of impressed red sealing wax with the letter "E" on each front pastedown. Volume two includes the armorial bookplate of Edward Wilberforce Unwin on the front pastedown below the wax. Volume one initialled "J. U." on the first page of text. Purchased from Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/83695 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume one in [http://books.google.com/books?id=sFUPAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books]. 
Read volume two in [http://books.google.com/books?id=v1UPAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].

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Historiōn ta Sōzomena

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<big>''Historiōn ta Sōzomena: Polybii Lycortae F. Megalopolitani Historiarum Libri qui Supersunt''</big>
===by Polybius===
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|trans=Issac Casaubon
|editor=Jacobus Gronovius
|lang=Greek and Latin
|publoc=Amstelodami
|publisher=Officina Johannis Janssonii à Waesberge, & Johannis van Someren
|year=1670
|set=3 volumes in 5
|desc=8vo (18 cm.)
}}[[File:PolybiusHistorionTaSozomena1670v3HalfTitle.jpg |left|thumb|250px|<center>Half-title, volume three.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius Polybius] (c. 200 BCE–c. 118 BCE) was born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia Arcadia], a region of Greece, around 200 BCE to a member of the Achaean confederacy ruling Greece. He became ''hipparchos'' (cavalry commander) of the confederacy in 169, but this victory was short-lived when he was included in a group of one thousand prominent Achaeans deported to Rome in 168. This “political purge” followed the Roman conquest of Macedonia, and resulted in Polybius being kept in Italy for sixteen years without a trial.<ref>M.C. Howatson, ed. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-2447 Poly'bius]" in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> Polybius befriended and mentored powerful Roman general and politician [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipio_Aemilianus Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus] and was consequently allowed to stay in Rome, interspersed with various political and military trips to Spain and Carthage.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Following the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Corinth_%28146_BC%29 Roman sack of Corinth] in 146 BCE, Polybius “helped to usher in the Roman settlement of Greece.”<ref>John Roberts, ed. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1767 Polybius]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> 
 Polybius is unique for being the only Hellenistic historian for whom a substantial amount of his works survives. Though all of his minor works are gone, the first five books of his ''Histories'' remain in their entirety, and many excerpts and quotations from the remainder of the forty books are preserved by other writers. In his introduction, Polybius states that his purpose in writing the ''Histories'' was to “describe and explain Rome’s rise to world dominion” in just under 53 years.<ref>Ibid.</ref> His belief that the perfection of the Roman constitution, “an even blend of monarchical, aristocratic, and democratic elements as he saw it” was responsible for the greatness of Rome had long-term impacts on influential Romans and historians.<ref>Howatson, "Poly'bius."</ref> Written in Greek, his history was primarily intended for Greeks, though also included were upper-class Romans who knew Greek. Aiming to be useful to his contemporaries, Polybius took a political approach to his history, explaining and analyzing wars and politics while avoiding emotional or cultural factors. Polybius was one of the first historians to attribute a role in Rome’s success to Fortune. Although he steers clear of giving divinities credit, but emphasizes Rome’s success being a result of her own merits.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 This particular edition is a Latin translation of what remains of Polybius’s ''Histories''.
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed twice in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Polybius. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo.'' [[Thomas Jefferson]] gave one copy to [[John Wayles Eppes]] and the other to [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. Jefferson had sent at least one of these copies to Wythe from Paris.<ref>See [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 September 1787]], page 5.</ref> Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> includes the 1763-64 edition of Polybius published in Leipzig based on an edition Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:25 [no.51].</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown." Because we do not know which edition Wythe owned, the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1670 Amsterdam edition when a copy became available.
[[File:PolybiusHistorionTaSozomena1670v5Headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text, volume five.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in later full calf, uniformly bound, with raised bands and spines in six panels. Has morocco title label to second panel, contrasting morocco volume label to third, and remaining panels with gilt central lozenge and volute corner pieces. Gilt rolled border to covers with all edged marbled and blue endpapers. Purchased from Temple Rare Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3669682 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
<references/>

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Plutarch's Lives

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===by Plutarch===
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|trans=André Dacier
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|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed for J. Tonson
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|set=8
|desc=8vo (20 cm.)
}}[[File:PlutarchLives1727v1Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch Plutarch] (ca. 45–120)<ref>George Karamanolis, "[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/ Plutarch]" in ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', accessed October 1, 2013.</ref> was a biographer, philosopher, and ethicist born in Greece into a Greek family. The government and culture of his upbringing were dominated by Rome, and he would eventually become a Roman citizen, taking the name “Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus.” He spent the majority of his life in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaeronea Chaeronea], Athens, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi Delphi], and Rome.<ref>Robert Lamberton, ''Plutarch'' (New Haven: Yale University Press 2001), 1–6.</ref> 
 
A renowned philosopher, his most notable works are ''Parallel Lives'', a series of Greek biographies, and ''Moralia'' (Morals and Customs), a collection of works on religion, politics, and philosophy.<ref>''Online Library of Liberty'', s.v. "[http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=3778&Itemid=28 Plutarch: About the Author]," accessed September 28, 2013.</ref> ''Lives'' (often called ''Parallel Lives'' or ''Plutarch’s Lives'') is more than just historical, as it seeks to compare the parallel lives of famous Greeks and Romans and thereby synthesize a greater philosophy or wisdom about life.<ref>Plutarch, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm ''Plutarch’s Lives''], trans. Aubrey Stewart and George Long (London: Bell & Sons, 1894), accessed October 1, 2013.</ref> The text was a definitive source of biography in antiquity, and was read widely in colonial America.<ref>Louis B. Wright, “Thomas Jefferson and the Classics,” ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society'' 87, no. 3 (1943): 222–223.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Plutarch’s lives 1st. to the 6th. vol. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his granddaughters, [[Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead|Ann]] and [[Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge|Ellen Randolph]]. The precise edition of the incomplete set owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 18, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates as much, adding "Probably one of several eight-volume editions published in octavo." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists a 1727 edition published in London, with notes by John Dryden, based on a copy Jefferson owned which he inherited from his wife's first husband. The Wolf Law Library purchased the edition suggested by Brown.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in later 3/4 tan calf with marbled boards, black leather spine labels and blind stamping. Purchased from Argosy Book Store.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473404 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:PlutarchLives1727v1Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, "The Life of Theseus", volume one.</center>]]
==References==
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Anglo-Saxon Version, from the Historian Orosius

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===by Orosius===
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|author=Oroius
|trans=Anglo-Saxon translation attributed to Alfred, King of England; English translation by Daniel Barrington
|edition=First
|lang=English and Anglo-Saxon
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orosius Paulus Orosius] (born c. 375, died after 418) was a priest, historian, theologian, and a student of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo Augustine of Hippo.]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great Alfred the Great], son of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelwulf_of_Wessex King Aethelwulf of Wessex], was born in 849.<ref>Patrick Wormald, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/183 Alfred (848/9–899)]," in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004), accessed September 25, 2013.</ref> He reigned from 871 to 899, and died with charters referring to him as king of the Anglo-Saxons.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Much of what is known about Alfred comes from a biography by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asser Bishop Asser], a man who was close to the king.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Four books are attributed to Alfred and he had other works, “books necessary for all men to know," translated.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

An anonymous translator, most likely inspired by Alfred's enthusiasm for Latin learning,<ref>Michael Lapidge, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/95595 Scholars at King Alfred's court (act. 880–899)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 27, 2013.</ref> produced an Old English version of Orosius's ''Historiae Adversum Paganos''. In 1773, Daniel Barrington translated the Old English and produced ''The Anglo-Saxon Version, From the Historian Orosius''. Unfortunately, the Barrington's text received "much criticism for its unreliability."<ref>David Philip Miller, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1529 Barrington, Daines (1727/8–1800)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 27, 2013.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Barrington’s Orosius. Saxon & English. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The only edition of Orosius translated by Daines Barrington was published in London in 1773. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list this particular work. The Wolf Law Library followed their suggestions and purchased the 1773 title.
[[File:OrosiusAngloSaxonVersion1773v1Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, half-title page, volume one.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in quarter calf with marbled boards. Spines feature bands and gilt rules and green morocco labels with gilt lettering. The front pastedown of each volume includes the bookplate of the Right Honourable George John, Earl De la Warr&mdash[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sackville-West],_5th_Earl_De_La_Warr George Sackville-West], fifth Earl De la Warr&mdashthe stamp of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath Order of the Bath] and a shelf designation. Both half-title pages inscribed "St. Petersburg, 1774." and "W. Tooke." Purchased from Pazzo Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3465209 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:OrosiusAngloSaxonVersion1773v2Map.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Map of Europe, volume two.</center>]]
==References==
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Cornelii Nepotis Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae et Editione Oxoniensi Fideliter Expressae

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===by Cornelius Nepos===
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|shorttitle=Cornelii Nepotis Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae
|author=Cornelius Nepos
|lang=Latin
|publoc=Galsguae
|publisher=In Aedibus Academicis excudebant Rob. et And. Foulis
|year=1749
|pages=xix, [5], 215
|desc=12mo (13 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Nepos Cornelius Nepos] (c. 110 – 24 BCE) is the earliest extant Latin biographer. He was born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisalpine_Gaul Cisalpine Gaul], on the Roman side of the Alps. By 65 BCE, he had moved to Rome and established himself in the literary circles of the time. His work ''On Famous Men'' grouped and chronicled the lives of about 400 men, both Roman and non-Roman, who he recognized as significant and important men. The only surviving remains of ''On Famous Men, are “On Eminent Foreign Generals” and, from his section on Roman Historians, writings on the lives of Porcius Cato and Atticus.<ref>John Roberts, ed. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1497 Nēpos, Cornēlius]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> 
 In the latter half of the twentieth century, Nepos was largely discounted as a sub-par researcher and writer due to his basic linguistic structures and error-ridden historical accounts.<ref>Molly M. Pryzwansky, “Cornelius Nepos: Key Issues and Critical Approaches,” ''The Classical Journal'' 105, no 2 (Dec. 2009): 97.</ref> According to one historian, “the accidents of survival and Nepos’ [sic] primacy as the first extant Latin biographer are what make him worthy of study. The biographer’s methods, themes, philosophies and political views are secondary to his position on the generic timeline and are not inherently interesting in themselves.”<ref>Ibid., 98.</ref> In more recent years, however, ancient historians and biographers have been looked upon in a kinder light with an emphasis on the moral tone and purpose of the author:
<blockquote>A biography’s historicity, moreover, is often subordinated to its moral agenda. Thus, a biographer might deliberately employ a flexible chronology or prefer anecdotal evidence to harder, grander “facts” and deeds in order to underscore some of his subject’s traits, such as loyalty, generosity, restraint—or the lack thereof.<ref>Ibid., 100.</ref></blockquote>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Cornelius Nepos. 12mo. Foul.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Duodecimo editions were published by Foulis in 1742 and 1749." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1742 edition based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:33-34 [no.71].</ref> The Wolf Law Library found a copy of the 1749 Foulis edition and purchased it.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full brown calf with gilt border to front and rear boards. Spine has four raised bands with gilt decoration and a red morocco label with gilt lettering. Purchased from Schooner Books, Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3623421 William & Mary's online catalog.]
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Works of Flavius Josephus

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===by Flavius Josephus===
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|shorttitle=The Works of Flavius Josephus
|author=Flavius Josephus
|trans=Sir Roger L'Estrange
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed for Richard Sare ...
|year=1702
|edition=First of this translation
|lang=English
|pages=[6], 18, 1130 [i.e. 942]
|desc=Folio (41 cm.)
}}[[File:WorksofFlaviusJosephus1702Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Josephus Flavius Josephus], born Joseph ben Matityahu in Jerusalem, lived from 37 to c. 100 C.E. and wrote his histories and autobiography in Greek, quite possibly to reach the upper social classes and lessen their prejudices against the Jewish people. He began writing around 66 C.E., with his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_War book] on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War Jewish War], and finished around 90 C.E., with his autobiography.<ref>K. Hoeber, "[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08522a.htm Flavius Josephus]," in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910), accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> Perhaps the most famous of Josephus’ works is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquities_of_the_Jews ''Jewish Antiquities'''], which contains his account of Jewish history, beginning with the creation story and ultimately discussing Jesus and the Christians who were the contemporaries of Josephus.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
''The Works of Flavius Josephus'' is a collection of manuscripts that detail ancient Jewish history and culture.<ref>James Carleton Paget, "Some Observations on Josephus and Christianity," ''Journal of Theological Studies'' 52, no. 2 (October 2001): 539.</ref> The rise in Protestant Christianity during the eighteenth century would have made such a collection very significant.<ref>Erin E Kelly. "Jewish History, Catholic Argument: Thomas Lodge's Workes of Josephus as a Catholic Text," ''Sixteenth Century Journal'' 34, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 993.</ref> Christians valued the works of Josephus because of the historical information about Christ and the apostles.<ref>Lillian Armstrong, "A Renaissance Flavius Josephus," ''The Yale University Library Gazette'' 58, No. 3/4 (April 1984), 122.</ref> Many felt that they provided proof of Christian doctrines.<ref>Eva Matthews Sanford, "Propaganda and Censorship in the Transmission of Josephus," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association'' 66 (1935): 127-145.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Josephus. by Lestrange. fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as ''L'Estranges Josephus' ($2.00 value)''. We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Numerous editions of this translation in folio were published, the first in 1702." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1724 edition published in London. The Wolf Law Library purchased the London 1702 edition because we located a copy and because we prefer to purchase the first edition, in this case the first folio edition, when the actual edition owned by Wythe is unknown.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Contemporary panelled calf rebacked with original spine laid down. Purchased from Barnaby Rudge Booksellers. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3452463 William & Mary's online catalog.]
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Titi Livii Historiarum Quod Extat

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===by Livy===
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|shorttitle=Titi Livii Historiarum Quod Extat
|author=Livy
|editor=Joannes Fredericus Gronovius
|publoc=Amstelodami
|publisher=Apud D. Elzevirium
|year=1678
|lang=Latin
|pages=[2], 788
|desc=12 mo (16 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livy Titus Livius] (59 BCE–17 CE) was a Roman historian from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padua Patavium], the wealthiest town in northern Italy. His original work ''Books from the Foundation of the City'' covered Roman history from the founding to 9 BCE in 142 books. Only 35 of those books still survive today, yet they show that Livy wrote as an orator rather than a historian. He had an embellished style and made few references besides those to literary sources.<ref>John Roberts, ed. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1297 Livy]," in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> His embellishments and additions create an atmosphere which makes the reader a part of the specific topic’s experience. “His aim was to chronicle the rise of Rome to mastery first of Italy, then of the rest of the Mediterranean world, and to highlight the virtues which produced this result and enabled Rome to defeat Hannibal.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
[[File:TitiLiviiHistoriarumQuodExtat1678Headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]''Titi Livii Historiarum Quod Extat'' contains, in the original Latin, the still existing portions of Livy's historical work.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Livius. p. f.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates as much and suggests no specific edition. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1678 Amsterdam edition based on a copy of this edition owned by Jefferson (but not sold to the Library of Congress). The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the 1678 Elzevir edition edited by J.F. Gronovius.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in dark green Jansenist morocco with gilt edges. Purchased from Hundersdorff Rare Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3639068 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
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Titi Livii Historiarum Quod Extat

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===by Livy===
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|author=Livy
|editor=Joannes Fredericus Gronovius
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livy Titus Livius] (59 BCE–17 CE) was a Roman historian from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padua Patavium], the wealthiest town in northern Italy. His original work ''Books from the Foundation of the City'' covered Roman history from the founding to 9 BCE in 142 books. Only 35 of those books still survive today, yet they show that Livy wrote as an orator rather than a historian. He had an embellished style and made few references besides those to literary sources.<ref>John Roberts, ed. "[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1297 Livy]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> His embellishments and additions create an atmosphere which makes the reader a part of the specific topic’s experience. “His aim was to chronicle the rise of Rome to mastery first of Italy, then of the rest of the Mediterranean world, and to highlight the virtues which produced this result and enabled Rome to defeat Hannibal.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
[[File:TitiLiviiHistoriarumQuodExtat1678Headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]''Titi Livii Historiarum Quod Extat'' contains, in the original Latin, the still existing portions of Livy's historical work.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Livius. p. f.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates as much and suggests no specific edition. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1678 Amsterdam edition based on a copy of this edition owned by Jefferson (but not sold to the Library of Congress). The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the 1678 Elzevir edition edited by J.F. Gronovius.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in dark green Jansenist morocco with gilt edges. Purchased from Hundersdorff Rare Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3639068 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=J7gUAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].

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[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]