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Reports of Cases Decreed in the High Court of Chancery

2019-08-15T16:43:32Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Reports of Cases Decreed in the High Court of Chancery, During the Time Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham, was Lord Chancellor, in Many of Which Decrees He was Assisted by Some of the Judges of the Common Law''}}
===by Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham===
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}}[[wikipedia:Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham|Heneage Finch]], first Earl of Nottingham, (1621 – 1682) was admitted to the [[wikipedia:Inner Temple|Inner Temple]] in 1638 and called to the bar in 1645.<ref>D. E. C. Yale, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9433 Finch, Heneage, first earl of Nottingham (1621–1682)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed May 30, 2013. Subsequent biographical information derives from this article unless otherwise noted.</ref> After spending time as solicitor-general and attorney-general, Finch was appointed lord chancellor in 1675. William Nelson compiled and edited ''Reports of Cases Decreed in the High Court of Chancery, During the Time Sir Heneage Finch'' from cases decided by Finch from 1673 to 1681. Nelson's compilation has been heavily criticized. One biographer of Nottingham wrote that the reports "are miserably executed, containing a defective narrative of the facts,—hardly any statement of the points made by counsel or the authorities relied on,—and, without the reasons of the Judge, giving only an abstract of the Decree ..."<ref>John Campbell and Baron Campbell, ''Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: from the Earliest Times till the Reign of Queen Victoria'', 7th ed. (New York : Cockcroft & Company, 1878), 4:225.</ref> Another wrote "the highest authorities" all "speak of the book disparagingly."<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed., (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 488.</ref> The quality of the reports is unfortunate, as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS_Holdsworth Holdsworth] has described Lord Nottingham's "analyses of complicated facts are masterly, both for their minuteness, and for the clearness with which the results of the analysis are stated. He can enunciate a principle, and reason from it closely and logically ..."<ref>W. S. Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1924), 6:543.</ref> Even [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone Blackstone] wrote that Nottingham "was a person of the greatest abilities and most uncorrupted integrity; a thorough master and zealous defender of the laws and constitution of his country; and endued with a pervading genius, that enabled him to discover and pursue the true spirit of justice ..."<ref>William Blackstone, ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'' (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1768), 3:55.</ref>
[[File:FinchReports1725signature.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Previous owner's signature, front pastedown.</center>]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Reports in Chancery tempore Finch. fol." 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 edition of this title to the Library of Congress and that copy still exists today. However, the volume includes the bookplate of Peyton Randolph and it has no definitive markings linking it to Wythe. [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 11, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing mentions the copy at the Library of Congress, noting "[t]his may be a different copy than Wythe's." 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 and concludes that "Wythe['s] ownership of this Jefferson volume" is "probable." The Wolf Law Library's [[George Wythe Collection]] includes a copy of the first edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in sheep-backed boards with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Previous owner's signature, "Lewis Strong," on the front pastedown. Purchased from Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157657983592656 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21567166970003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/FinchReportsOfCasesDecreedInTheHighCourtOfChancery1725.pdf ''Reports of Cases Decreed in the High Court of Chancery''] (30MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=x2tZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138&dq=Heneage+Finch,+Earl+of+Nottingham&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_DDUUcCxPNLi4AOavIHYAw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA Google Books].

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Reports of Cases Taken and Adjudged in the Court of Chancery

2019-08-15T16:41:48Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Reports of Cases Taken and Adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the Reign of King Charles I., Charles II., James II., William III. and Queen Anne: Being Special Cases and Most of Them Decreed with the Assistance of the Judges, and All of Them Referring to the Register Books Wherein are Settled Several Points of Equity, Law and Practice''}}
===Court of Chancery, Great Britain===
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}}Referred to as ''Chancery Reports,'' all three parts were published anonymously from 1693 to 1716.<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 477. Wallace notes on page 479 that he had "newver seen any suggestion as to the authorship of any one of them, except as to the first hundred pages of Part 3d."</ref> The year 1736 marked the first time that all three parts were published together.<ref>W. S. Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1924), 6:616.</ref> "The different Parts of this book possess unequal merit. The first two—which appear to be mere extracts from the Register's books, and as such might have been made by some person who had never been in court at all—are characterized by Chancellor Kent 'as loose and meagre, without much weight or authority;' while of the 3d Part he says, 'that some cases in it, decided by Lord Cowper, are uncommonly well reported.'"<ref>Wallace, ''The Reporters'', 479.</ref>
[[File:ReportsOfCasesTakenAndAdjudgedInTheHighCourt1736coverStamp.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Gilt ownership stamp, front cover.</center>]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "3d. Chancery rept. 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. [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 only the 1st edition (1716) of part three, ''The Third Part of Reports of Cases, Taken and Adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the Reigns of King Charles II. King William, and Queen Anne.'' 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> suggests Wythe also owned the 2nd edition (1715) of parts one and two, in addition to the 1st edition (1716) of part three, based in part on the volumes sold by Thomas Jefferson to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:203 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=217 [no.1746]].</ref> The original source for the [[George Wythe Collection]], Barbara 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> notes the combined 3rd edition (1736) of all three parts as derived from notations in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., ''The Papers of John Marshall'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:74.</ref> Following Dean's suggestion, the Wolf Law Library purchased the 3rd edition, a folio rather than an octavo as indicated by Jefferson. The purchase was made before the publication of Jefferson's Inventory in January, 2010.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in later three-quarter morocco over pebbled cloth with raised bands and a lettering piece to the spine and renewed endpapers. The title page features multiple stamps from the Probate Court Library and the Court of Probate. A gilt stamp on the cover reads "Probate Court Library, Royal Courts of Justice." Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637449169143/with/10442671416/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21551584710003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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[[Category:Chancery Reports]]
[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
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[[Category:Folios]]
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Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery

2019-08-15T16:40:43Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery''}}
===Great Britain. Court of Chancery.===
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}}''Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery'' contains records of chancery cases decided during the reigns of Charles II and James II. More specifically, it covers the period from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_%28England%29 restoration] of the monarchy in 1660 until James II was deposed in 1688. The reporter does not carry with it the highest reputation. Chancellor Kent referred to it as a collection of "loose, meagre, and inaccurate reports.”<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 183.</ref> Other nineteenth-century commentators called it "a book of very doubtful authority" and "very incorrect."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Another source acknowledges this dubious reputation but goes on to mention that the third edition, the one owned by Wythe, "has been generally considered as much the better book."<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed., rev. and enl. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 481.</ref> Thomas Jefferson was definitely familiar with the second edition, published in 1707, as he took notes on it while compiling his ''Equity Commonplace Book.<ref>Edward Dumbauld, "Thomas Jefferson's Equity Commonplace Book," ''Washington and Lee Law Review'', 48, no. 4 (Fall 1991): 1260.</ref><br />
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Although no author is listed, it is suspected that the first edition of ''Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery'' was created by Sir Anthony Keck, a lawyer and politician who died in 1695.<ref>Stuart Handley, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15235 Keck, Sir Anthony (bap. 1630, d. 1695)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed January 8, 2015.</ref> Sir Edward Ward, chief baron of the exchequer, claimed that he was responsible for its publication.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Edward Foss, in his ''Biographia Juridica'', claims that the 1697 edition was published from Keck’s collected papers.<ref>Edward Foss, ''Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870'' (London: J. Murray, 1870), 380.</ref> While the veracity of these claims is not entirely clear, it is known for certain that Keck collected reports of chancery cases during his lifetime, making it at least possible that he was responsible for the first edition.<ref>Handley, "Keck, Sir Anthony."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe copy possibly held by the Library of Congress.

==See also==
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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Cases in Equity During the Time of the Late Lord Chancellor Talbot

2019-08-15T16:38:27Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Cases in Equity During the Time of the Late Lord Chancellor Talbot: With Tables of the Names of the Cases and Principal Matters''}}
===by Alexander Forrester===
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}}Alexander Forrester, "an equity barrister of some eminence,"<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:142.</ref> compiled notes on the cases of [[wikipedia:Charles_Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot|Lord Chancellor Talbot]]. The first edition of these reports were published without Forrester's consent<ref>Ibid., 143.</ref> and may not have been intended for publication without further editing.<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 508.</ref> Nevertheless, while commentators may have lamented the quality of the reports,<ref>Wallace, ''The Reporters'', 508.</ref> Talbot's<ref>For more information about Lord Chancellor Talbot, see M. Macnair, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/26923 Talbot, Charles, first Baron Talbot of Hensol (bap. 1685, d. 1737)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 7, 2013.</ref> decisions rise above this mediocrity:

<blockquote>
Lord Talbot's decisions exhibit, indeed, in the form in which we have them, little of the eloquence so highly rated by his contemporaries, and which the reporters of that day, devoted entirely to the illustration of the legal doctrines of the cases, would perhaps have deemed an incongruous and impertinent superfluity; but they display a strong and ready grasp of facts, a thorough intimacy with legal principles and authorities, and an eminently clear and logical exposition of them,–his judgments being invariably accompanied by a statement, more or less in detail, of the reasons upon which they were grounded. They retain an authority almost untouched by the dissent of later Judges.<ref>W. N. Welsby, ''Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'' (Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, 1846), 270.</ref>
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Ca. Temp. Talbot. fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. Folio editions were published in 1741, 1742, and 1753.<ref>''English Short Title Catalog'', http://estc.bl.uk, search of "Time" and "Talbot" reveals three folio editions.</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 concurs with these findings and does not list a 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 1753 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'' (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:205 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=219 [no.1752]].</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased a copy of the 1753 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period-style in the 1980s.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637447973995/with/10442914313/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21554918300003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ForresterReports1753.pdf ''Cases in Equity During the Time of the Late Lord Chancellor Talbot''] (17MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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[[Category:Case Reports]]
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General Abridgment of Cases in Equity

2019-08-15T16:35:30Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity: Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, &c.''}}
===By a Gentleman of the Middle Temple===
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}}Considered the "most important" of the equity abridgments of the eighteenth century,<ref>W. S. Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:171.</ref> ''Equity Cases Abridged'' was mostly likely written by [[wikipedia: Matthew Bacon| Matthew Bacon]], author of [[New Abridgment of the Law|''A New Abridgment of the Law'']]. "The evidence for this fact is partly indirect—cases from ''Equity Cases Abridged'' are copied literally in Bacon's ''Abridgment''; and partly direct—Sir William Lee stated in his copy of ''Equity Cases Abridged'' that it was written by Bacon."<ref>Ibid., 172.</ref> Others have attributed at least the first volume to Henry Pooley.<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed., (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 490.</ref> The two volumes enjoy divergent reputations. The cases in volume one "are reported by a good lawyer, who understood perfectly well the decisions he was reporting; and the volume often renders clear and sensible cases which in Vernon are unintelligible or very improbable."<ref>Ibid., 491.</ref> The second volume "stands less well than the 1st. It was spoken of disrespectfully ..."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Ca. in Eq.abridged. 2.v. fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. The 1756 edition is the first two volume folio edition, although we cannot be certain which edition Wythe owned. Three of the [[George Wythe Collection|Wythe Collection]] sources ([[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), 11 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</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> 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 the 1756 (fourth) edition, which is the one acquired by the Wolf Law Library.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with tooled edge on cover near spine. Rebacked in period-style calf with red morocco, gilt-lettered labels.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157655540320824 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21581770280003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/GeneralAbridgmentOfCasesInEquity1756Vol1.pdf Volume I] (34MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/GeneralAbridgmentOfCasesInEquity1756Vol2.pdf Volume II] (70MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=bn42AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]<br />
Read volume two, part two of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=3fo2AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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General Abridgment of the Common Law

2019-08-15T16:32:02Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''A General Abridgment of the Common Law, Alphabetically Digested under Proper Titles: With Notes and References to the Whole''}}
===by Knightley D'Anvers===
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}}Knightley D'Anvers (c. 1670-1740) was an English barrister, deputy recorder of Northampton, and author of ''A General Abridgement of the Common Law, Alphabetically Digested under Proper Titles: with Notes and References to the Whole''.<ref>Holly Faith Nelson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/74080 D'Anvers , Alicia (bap. 1668, d. 1725)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed January 7, 2015.</ref> D'Anvers was admitted to the Middle Temple, later transferring to the Inner Temple from which he was called to the bar.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He married poet Alicia D'Anvers in 1688.

D'Anver's ''Abridgment'' is a translation of Henry Rolle's ''[[Abridgment des Plusieurs Cases et Resolutions del Common Ley|Un Abridgment des Plusieurs Cases et Resolutions del Common Ley]]'', updated with additional cases to the time D'Anvers composed his work. The book did not initally have sufficient funding or an adequate publisher, and as such, D'Anvers only completed it up to the chapter called "Extinguishment". When it was published, it received imprimatur, an official declaration of authorization for the book to be published, from all the presiding judges except Lord Holt. Later Lord Holt not only paid D'Anvers a personal compliment from the bench, but also left him an annuity of twenty pounds each year for life.<ref>John Gage Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography, or A Thesaurus of American, English, Irish and Scotch Law Books: Together with Some Continental Treatises'', (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 253.</ref>

Charles Viner, in his preface to ''[[General Abridgment of Law and Equity|A General Abridgment of Law and Equity'']], gives the following account of D'Anvers' Abridgement progress through the press:
<blockquote>
I have been credibly informed that his first volume continued seven years in the press. In eight years from publication thereof came out his second volume. The next was only a single Title, Error, and which was at first entitled a continuation of the second volume, though afterwards it was new named, and then called part of the third volume; but the Title Error did not make its appearance till fourteen years after the coming of the second volume. And after another ten years respite followed the remainder of the third volume; so that from the publication of volume first to that of volume third was not less than thirty-two years complete.<ref>Charles Viner, ''[[General Abridgment of Law and Equity|A General Abridgment of Law and Equity, Alphabetically Digested under proper Titles; with Notes and References to the Whole]]''. 2nd ed. (Aldershot: Printed for the Author, by Agreement with the Law-Patentees, 1741), 18:Preface.</ref>
</blockquote>
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Danvers’ abr. 2d. & 3d v. fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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, rev. 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the second edition (1725-1737) based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:221-222 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=236 [no.1790]].</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 January 7, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Probably the second volume of the second edition (1725) and the third volume (1737)."

As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of D'Anvers' ''Abridgment''.

==See also==
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume two, part two through volume three, part two of this book in [https://books.google.com/books?id=gxg2AQAAMAAJ&dq=D%27Anvers.+A+General+Abridgment+of+the+Common+Law Google Books.]

[[Category:Abridgments]]
[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:Knightley D'Anvers]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:London]]

Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer

2019-08-15T16:03:04Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer''}}
===by Sir John Strange===
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}}[[File:StrangeReportsV11755Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]][[wikipedia:John Strange (English politician)|John Strange]] (1695 – 1754) studied law under Charles Salkeld<ref>A. A. Hanham, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/26635 Strange, Sir John (bap. 1696, d. 1754)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 6, 2013.</ref> and was called to the bar in 1618.<ref>Edward Foss, ''Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870'' (London: John Murray, 1870), 636.</ref> He served in a variety of legal capacities including solicitor general (1737-1742), [[wikipedia:Recorder of London|Recorder of London]] (1739-1742), and [[wikipedia:Master of the Rolls|Master of Rolls]] (1750-1754).<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:131.</ref>

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<blockquote>
"Before his death Strange [began] preparing his collection of reports for publication. Because of his willingness to lend his notes to judges there had been many opportunities for copies of this material, unscrupulously obtained, to pass into the hands of legal hacks. It included summaries and arguments of cases where no judgment had been made. It was Strange's chief concern, therefore, to have ready a definitive compilation of reports of adjudged cases that could be published in the event of any pirating of his work. Accordingly, when some of Strange's case notes did indeed appear shortly after his death under the title of ''A Collection of Select Cases Relating to Evidence, by a Late Barrister-at-Law'', his executors acted swiftly to suppress it, and in 1755 his eldest son published the reports as authentically selected, dedicating them to Lord Hardwicke. Reprinted in second and third editions in 1782 and 1795, Strange's reports endured in their usefulness for the rest of the century and after."<ref>Hanham, "Strange, Sir John."</ref>
</blockquote>
</div>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Strange's rep. 1st. vol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. Three of the [[George Wythe Collection|Wythe Collection]] sources ([[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), 14 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</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> 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 (1658) of Strange's ''Reports''. LibraryThing does include the caveat "Precise edition unknown, although Wythe was likely to have had a volume from the first edition." The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1658 edition.
[[File:StrangeReportsV11755Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front pastedown, volume one.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf. Front pastedown, volume one, inscribed "John M. Davenport, Oxford."

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157658662053591 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21546650990003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/StrangeReportsOfAdjudgedCases1788Vol1.pdf Volume I] (38MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/StrangeReportsOfAdjudgedCases1788Vol2.pdf Volume II] (32MB PDF)
</div>

==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

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[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Chancery Reports]]
[[Category:Common Pleas Reports]]
[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:Exchequer Reports]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:John Strange]]
[[Category:King's Bench Reports]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:London]]

Law of Covenants

2019-08-15T15:54:43Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Law of Covenants: a Treatise Explaining the Nature and Rules of the Several Sorts of Covenants''}}
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|shorttitle=The Law of Covenants
|author=The Author of ''The Law of Ejectments''
|edition=Second
|lang=[[:Category:English| English]]
|publoc=[[:Category: London| London, In the Savoy]]
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}}In the early eighteenth century, a covenant was "defined to be the Agreement or Consent of Two or more by Deed whereby either of the said Parties doth Promise to the other, That something is done already, or shall be done hereafter."<ref>''The Law of Covenants'' (London: J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq., 1713), 1.</ref>

The unidentified author of ''The Law of Covenants'' attempts to define and distinguish the various forms of covenants as they exist in the common law, including the difference between express and implicit covenants, personal and real covenants, joint and several covenants, and affirmative and negative covenants.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The book also delves into the procedure for bringing an action for breach of covenant, including identifying the parties against whom a suit may be brought, rules for joinder or severance, and determining damages.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Each chapter addresses a specific legal issue regarding covenants, and the margins of the book are often filled with the author’s tips and notes on the text; either defining terms and cases or reminding the reader that a principle might not be applicable in certain circumstances.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Law of] Covenants 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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> includes the second edition (1712) based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:309-310 [[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=328 no.1983]].</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 September 16, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. The first edition was published in 1711; the second, with similar imprint, in 1712." The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased a copy of the 1712 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full calf. Includes signatures of previous owners, "John Macpherson, Jr. 1771" and "Charles Swift" on the title page. Purchased from The Bookpress, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637877981463 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21585476350003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/LawOfCovenants1712.pdf ''The Law of Covenants''] (21MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Octavos]]

Reports of Sir Edward Coke

2019-08-15T15:42:30Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. in English, in Thirteen Parts Compleat (with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law) ''}}
===by Sir Edward Coke===
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}}Born on February 1, 1552 at Mileham, Norfolk, [[wikipedia:Edward Coke|Sir Edward Coke]] (1552 – 1634) was arguably the most prominent lawyer, legal writer, and politician during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a defender of the common law over the use of the Stuarts' royal prerogative.<ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/124844/Sir-Edward-Coke Sir Edward Coke]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref>

Coke began his studies in 1567 at [[wikipedia:Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]] during the years of the [[wikipedia:Vestiarian controversy|Vestiarian controversy]]—puritan protests against the Church of England. In 1572 he moved on to study at the [[wikipedia:Inner Temple|Inner Temple]], where he was admitted to the bar on April 20, 1578. Coke quickly rose to prominence through his successful execution of several noteworthy cases, such as [[wikipedia:Rule in Shelley's Case|''Shelley’s'' case]]. Coke's analytical efforts helped to refine the legal doctrines of English law, and his reputation won him a seat in Parliament. He would later become the Speaker of the House of Commons and eventually attorney general.<ref>Allen D. Boyer, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/5826 Coke, Sir Edward (1552–1634)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 18, 2013.</ref> In 1606, after being created [[wikipedia:Serjeant-at-law|serjeant-at-law]], Coke was appointed chief justice of the [[wikipedia:Court of Common Pleas (England)|Court of Common Pleas]]. He was transferred, against his will, to chief justice of the [[wikipedia:Court of King's Bench (England)|Court of King's Bench]] in 1613; he also became a member of the [[wikipedia:Privy Council of the United Kingdom|privy council]].<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."</ref>

[[File:CokesReports1738Vol6Bookplate.jpg|thumb|left|350px|[[George Wythe's bookplate|Bookplates of George Wythe]] and Tazewell Taylor, front pastedown, volume six.]]
After several political and judicial skirmishes with [[wikipedia:James VI and I|James I]] and [[wikipedia:Francis Bacon|Francis Bacon]], Coke was suspended from the privy council and removed from the bench in 1616.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "Sir Edward Coke."</ref> Although he never returned to the bench, Coke did return to Parliament and was elected to that body four times from 1620 to 1629. During this time he took a lead in creating and composing the [[wikipedia:Petition of Right|Petition of Right]]. "This document cited the Magna Carta and reminded Charles I that the law gave Englishmen their rights, not the king ... Coke's petition focused on ... due process, protection from unjust seizure of property or imprisonment, the right to trial by jury of fellow Englishmen, and protection from unjust punishments or excessive fines."<ref>''Bill of Rights Institute'', s.v. [http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/educator-resources/americapedia/americapedia-documents/petition-of-right/ "Petition of Right (1628)]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> After this triumph, Coke spent his remaining years at his home, Stoke Poges, working on ''The Institutes of the Laws of England'', another endeavor for which he is rightly famous.<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."</ref>

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<blockquote>
"Coke's first well-known work was a manuscript report of Shelley's case, circulated soon after the decision in 1581. In 1600, afraid that unauthorized versions of his case reports might be printed—and probably following the example of Edmund Plowden, with whom he had worked and whom he revered—Coke issued the First Part of his Reports. He put out eleven volumes by 1615. Making available more than 467 cases, carrying the imprimatur and the authority of the lord chief justice, these case reports provided a critical mass of material for the rapidly developing modern common law. Reversing medieval jurisprudence, which had often relied on general learning and reason, Coke preferred to amass precedents. 'The reporting of particular cases or examples', he asserted, was 'the most perspicuous course of teaching the right rule and reason of the law' (E. Coke, Reports, 1600–1659, 4, preface).

Coke began by printing great cases. With the Fourth Part and Fifth Part (1604–5) he shifted to shorter cases, grouped by topics. The Fifth Part featured Cawdrey's case, with Coke's treatise on the crown's ecclesiastical supremacy. Beginning with the Sixth Part (1607), Coke emphasized recent decisions. For his massive Book of Entries (1614) he collected pleadings for his fellow lawyers' better guidance."<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward (1552–1634)."</ref>
</blockquote>
</div>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe definitely owned this title—copies of volumes six and seven of the 1738 edition at the College of William & Mary include [[George Wythe's bookplate|his bookplate]] and an inscription on the inside front board, "Given by Thos. Jefferson to D. Carr, 1806." Surprisingly, ''Coke's Reports'' is not listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as being given to Jefferson's nephew, [[Dabney Carr]]. Perhaps this was an oversight on Jefferson's part, or the title appeared on a lost or damaged page. Three of the [[George Wythe Collection|Wythe Collection]] sources ([[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), 10 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</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> 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 the 1738 edition of this title.

==Description of Wolf Law Library's copy==
The [[George Wythe Collection]] includes a complete set of ''Coke's Reports'' purchased in 2010, and volume six of George Wythe's personal copy. The latter is on permanent loan to the Wolf Law Library from the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637634538664/ available on Flickr.] View the record for
this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21568289030003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt1.pdf Part I] (21MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt2.pdf Part II] (11MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt3.pdf Part III] (13MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt4.pdf Part IV] (16MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt5.pdf Part V] (18MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt6.pdf Part VI] (9MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt7.pdf Part VII] (9MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt8.pdf Part VIII] (21MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt9.pdf Part IX] (17MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt10.pdf Part X] (19MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt11.pdf Part XI] (11MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt12.pdf Part XII] (10MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Pt13.pdf Part XIII] (6MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirEdwardCoke1738Table.pdf Table] (21MB PDF)
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===George Wythe's copy, volume 6===
Rebound with original boards, featuring six raised bands. Includes the [[George Wythe's bookplate|bookplates of George Wythe]] and Tazewell Taylor of Norfolk, VA, numbered "166". It is also signed "Tazewell Taylor 1842" and is inscribed "Given by Thos Jefferson to D Carr 1806" beneath the Wythe bookplate.

===Complete Set===
[[File:CokesReports1738NinthPartSignature.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Initials, title page, ninth part.</center>]]
[[File:CokesReports1738EleventhPartSignature.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Signature, title page, eleventh part.</center>]]
Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and lettering pieces to spines. Includes the inscription "H. R. Droop, New Square, Lincoln's Inn" on the title pages of the first and third parts. Initialed "Wm. C. H." on the title pages to the seventh and ninth parts. Signed "John Hadfield" on the the title pages to the eleventh part and the general index.

==See also==
*''[[Book of Entries|A Book of Entries]]''
*''[[First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England|The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or, A Commentary upon Littleton]]''
*''[[Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England|The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning the Jurisdiction of the Courts]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Known Surviving Wythe Volumes]]
*''[[Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England|The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient and Other Statutes]]''
*''[[Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England|The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Chancery Reports]]
[[Category:Common Pleas Reports]]
[[Category:Edward Coke]]
[[Category:Exchequer Reports]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:King's Bench Reports]]
[[Category:Known Surviving Wythe Volumes]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Octavos]]

Works of Sir William Temple

2019-08-15T15:32:23Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Works of Sir William Temple''}}
===by William Temple===
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}}[[wikipedia: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 [[wikipedia:Third Anglo-Dutch War|Dutch War]], and the marriage of [[wikipedia:Mary II of England|Princess Mary]] and [[wikipedia: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 wrote extensively. His most famous work is ''Observations upon the United Provinces,'' a history of the Netherlands,<ref>Ibid.</ref> and he 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>

[[File:WorksOfSirWilliamTemple1720v2Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Inscription, title page, volume two.</center>]]
"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'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 1:155 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648091;view=1up;seq=185 [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).

==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, S<sup>t</sup> Germains" on the title page of volume one and "David Anderson, S<sup>t</sup> Germains" on the title page of volume two. Purchased from Sequitur Books.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637635317333/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21553917810003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/WorksOfSirWilliamTemple1720Vol1.pdf Volume I] (40MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/WorksOfSirWilliamTemple1720Vol2.pdf Volume II] (46MB PDF)
</div>
[[File:WorksOfSirWilliamTemple1720v1Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|400px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text, volume one.</center>]]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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General Abridgment of Law and Equity

2019-08-15T15:25:15Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles with Notes and References to the Whole''}}
===by Charles Viner===
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}}[[wikipedia:Charles Viner (jurist)|Charles Viner]] (bap. 1678, d. 1756) studied at Hart Hall, Oxford, but never completed his studies.<ref>David Ibbetson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28317 Viner, Charles (bap. 1678, d. 1756)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed November 21, 2013.</ref> He gained admission to the [[wikipedia:Middle Temple|Middle Temple]] in 1700.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Although never called to bar, Viner kept chambers at the King's Bench Walk, Temple where he gave occasional legal advice.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In his free time he enjoyed researching the literature of the law, and his ''Abridgment'' began as more of a hobby than a source of income. Viner based his work on Rolle's ''Abridgment'', but thought of it as more of a supplement to the uncompleted [[wikipedia:D'Anvers' Abridgment|D'Anvers's ''Abridgement'']].<ref>Percy H. Winfield, ''The Chief Sources of English Legal History'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925), 244.</ref> Thus, he started his work where D'Anvers left off: at the letter "F."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Viner's work took over half a century, resulting in twenty-three volumes.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Not only were the words his own, but he personally directed the manufacture of the paper that went into each volume.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Realizing the deficiencies in existing abridgements, he decided to complete the rest of the alphabet after finishing "F" through "Z."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Unsurprisingly, his independence angered established publishers and booksellers alike.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

The work was monumental, but a bit disorganized.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Completed in 1753, its twenty-three volumes contained a nearly complete composition of the legal materials available at the time.<ref>Ibid.</ref> But, with each volume containing approximately 550 pages, the material could be difficult to find.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It was not until 1758 that Robert Kelham's index provided the key to finding material quickly and accurately,<ref>Ibid.</ref> the index became so important that the second edition of Viner's ''Abridgment'' included it as a twenty-fourth volume.

Viner's final legacy, aside from his comprehensive work, came from his generosity to the University of Oxford.<ref>David Ibbetson, "Viner, Charles."</ref> Upon his death in 1756 he donated almost his entire estate to support the study of the common law.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It was his intention that others build upon the subject of his life’s work.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The first to hold the endowed Vinerian professorship was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone Sir William Blackstone].<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Viner's ''Abridgment'' is considered the most expansive common law work created by a single person.<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847) 711.</ref> Treatment of his work has varied in the 250 years since its creation. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Story Chief Justice Story], "[i]t is a cumbersome compilation, by no means accurate or complete in its citations, and difficult to use."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Others are more favorable: "When a question of Evidence. . . arises, fail not to search the. . . last edition of Viner's Abridgment"<ref>Ibid., 712</ref> Regardless of these opinions, it was an influential work cited by courts long after the author’s death.<ref>Percy H. Winfield, ''The Chief Sources of English Legal History'', 245.</ref>

[[File:VinersAbridgmentV5inscription.jpg|left|thumb|500px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf, volume five.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe definitely owned the first (1741-1753) edition of Viner's ''Abridgment''—a copy at the Library of Congress includes [[George Wythe's bookplate|his bookplate]] in each volume.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:222 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=236 [no.1791]].</ref> It is also listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Viner’s abr. F. to Y. inclus. 10.v. fol." under "[Commo]n law" in the section of books kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Two of the [[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 first edition "Viner's Abridgment." The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the same edition from another rare book collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period style with red title labels and black volume labels. Most volumes include a previous owner's signature on the front flyleaf and title page. Most are also stamped "Camden Co. Bar Assn." on the title page. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936. Set includes Robert Kelham's ''[https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21571348070003196 An Alphabetical Index to All the Abridgments of Law and Equity: and to Several Books of the Crown law, Conveyancing, and Practice, with Their Divisions and Subdivisions; Chiefly Calculated to Facilitate the References to the General Abridgment of Law and Equity, by Charles Viner, Esq]'' (London, In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lintot ... for the author, and sold by J. Worrall, 1758).

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157657639682578 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21555711030003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume eleven of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=mBc2AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Charles Viner]]
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[[Category:Jefferson's Books]]
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Marci Hieronymi Vidae, Cremonensis, Albae Episcopi, De Arte Poetica

2019-08-15T15:23:19Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Marci Hieronymi Vidae, Cremonensis, Albae Episcopi, De Arte Poetica''}}
===by Marco Girolamo Vida===
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}}[[Wikipedia:Marco Girolamo Via|Vida]] wrote a considerable amount of Latin poetry, both secular and sacred, in classical style, particular the style of Virgil. His major work was the Latin epic poem Christiados libri sex ("The Christiad in Six Books"), in the style and much of the language of Virgil.<ref> "Marco Girolamo Vida". The Catholic Encyclopedia. 2007-03-15.</ref> He began work on it under Pope Leo X in the 1510s but did not complete it until the early 1530s.<ref> Ibid. </ref> It was published in 1535, well after the pope's death. The poem is an epic poem in six cantos on the life of Christ.<ref> Ibid. </ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Vida. 12mo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. He later sold a copy of ''Marci Hieronymi Vidae, Cremonensis, Albae Episcopi, De Arte Poetica Libri Tres'' 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'' (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 4:476 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648125;view=1up;seq=496 (no.4402)].</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, rev. May, 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> includes a 1723 Oxford edition of ''De Arte Poetica'' based on E. Millicent Sowerby's inclusion of that title and edition in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''. [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 28, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing lists a different title, ''Marci Hieronymi Vidae, Cremonensis, Albae Episcopi, Christiados'', and indicates "Precise edition unknown. Sowerby suggests a 1723 Oxford edition, although several other duodecimo editions were published."<ref>Sowerby includes ''De Arte Poetica'', not ''Cristias''.</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased a copy of the 1723 edition of ''De Arte Poetica''.

[[File:VidaDeArtePoetica1723Signature.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Signature, front free endpaper.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full contemporary paneled calf with decorative tooling and rules to boards. Includes signature on front free-end paper, "Ex libris Robert Maxwell," and book plate of Robert Maxwell of Finnebroque, Esq on title page verso.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157660905870205 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21568520560003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

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Doctor and Student

2019-08-15T15:16:27Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Doctor and Student, or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England: Containing the Grounds of Those Laws, Together with Questions and Cases Concerning the Equity and Conscience Thereof: also Comparing the Civil, Canon, Common and Statute Laws, and Shewing Wherein They Vary from One Another''}}
===by Christopher Saint German===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_St._Germain Christopher Saint German] (c. 1460 – 1540/41) was a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Temple Middle Temple] in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.<ref>J. H. Baker, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24493 St German, Christopher (c.1460–1540/41)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> Born in 1460, Saint German was known for his scholarship and piety.<ref>R. H. Helmholz, "Christopher St. German and the Law of Custom," ''The University of Chicago Law Review'' 70, no. 1 (Winter 2003), 130.</ref> As an author, he is best known for his work ''Doctor and Student'', chiefly released in 1528.<ref>Ibid, 129.</ref> Initially, the piece was completely in Latin, but the language changed in later versions.<ref>Baker, "St German, Christopher." </ref>

''Doctor and Student'' proposed to "explore the relationship between the principles of English law and conscience."<ref>Helmholz, "Christopher St. German and the Law of Custom," 130.</ref> The format was a dialogue between a "Student of the English common law" and a "Doctor of Theology," in which they discussed the common law. The objectives of this work have been described as providing a description of the substantive law, discussing the tension between the common law and that of the church, and delving into "the role of conscience and equity in law, both in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Chancery court of Chancery] and the common law itself."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==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> suggest Wythe owned the sixteenth (1761) edition of this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., ''The Papers of John Marshall'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:47.</ref> The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the sixteenth edition.

[[File:SaintGermanDoctorAndStudent1761Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|500px|<center>Inscription, table of contents.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards with raised bands and lettering piece to the spine and endpapers renewed. Contains early owner signatures to the head of the title page and Table of Contents. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637877656904 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21568305230003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/SaintGermanDoctorAndStudent1761.pdf ''Doctor and Student''] (15MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=QgFCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR12&dq=Doctor+And+Student&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wgPfUZbGM_bI4AOV8ID4BQ&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Doctor%20And%20Student&f=false Google Books].

[[Category:Christopher Saint German]]
[[Category:English Law]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
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Epitome of All the Common and Statute Laws of this Nation, Now in Force

2019-08-15T15:12:29Z

Mvanwicklin:

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===by William Sheppard===
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}}[[File:SheppardEpitome1656Marginalia.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Marginalia and initial capital, page 82.</center>]][[Wikipedia:William Sheppard (barrister)|William Sheppard]] (1595 – 1674) was a highly influential legal and religious reformer in England during the early and middle part of the 17th century.<ref>Nancy L. Matthews, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25349 Sheppard, William (bap. 1595, d. 1674)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 10, 2013.</ref> After being called to the bar in 1629, Sheppard became a well-known lawyer in the rural part of England from 1631 until 1654. During this time, he served as steward for several manors, and was an attorney of Gloucester's local court. In addition to his practice, Sheppard published several legal texts. Many of these were based upon Sheppard’s own observations of the cases involved in his local practice. He also wrote several religious texts on a variety of topics.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

In 1653 Sheppard was called to London by [[wikipedia:Oliver Cromwell]] to assist him in the creation of a law reform program.<ref>Nancy L. Matthews, ''William Sheppard, Cromwell's Law Reformer'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 31.</ref> Some experts believe that both Sheppard's religious and legal publications were the ultimate for his selection.<ref>Matthews, "Sheppard, William."</ref> During Sheppard's three years with Cromwell he published nine texts in support of the administration's agenda.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Some of his best known works during this period included ''Precedent of Precedents'', which contained standardized forms to register land, and ''An Epitome of All the Common and Statute Laws of the Nation now in Force'', which was one of the earliest attempts at an abridged legal encyclopedia.<ref>"Tarlton Law Library - Law Dictionary Collection - online exhibit," Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin, accessed October 10, 2013, http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/exhibits/dictionaries/common_law/sheppard.html.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[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), 14 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> includes the 1656 edition of Sheppard's ''Epitome'' based on Alan Smith's assertion that [[Thomas Jefferson]] cites the work in his handbook.<ref>Alan McKinley Smith, "Virginia Lawyers, 1680-1776: The Birth of an American Profession" (PhD diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 1967), 263.</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, rev. 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the first edition (1675) of ''The Grand Abridgment of the Common and Statute Law of England'' based on notes in Jefferson's commonplace book.<ref>''The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government'', ed. Gilbert Chinard (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1926), 352.</ref> Jefferson studied law under Wythe from 1762 to 1767, so the entries from the mid 1770s may not reflect Wythe's influence. Brown also notes that this work is based upon Sheppard's earlier work, ''An Epitome of all the Common and Statute Laws of this Nation, Now in Force''. No conclusive evidence proves which edition Wythe may have owned, or, indeed, that he owned either. The Wolf Law Library followed Dean's recommendation and purchased the 1656 edition of ''An Epitome of All the Common & Statute Laws of this Nation, Now in Force.''

[[File:SheppardEpitome1656LooseInscription.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Loose inscription (formerly on pastedown?).</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with blind rules to boards. Rebacked in period style with raised bands and lettering pieces. Original head of title page missing and replaced by modern period-style copy. Includes marginalia throughout volume and a loose inscription, possibly removed from one of the original pastedowns. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157658783572091 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21581889550003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/SheppardEpitomeOfAllTheCommonAndStatuteLaws1656.pdf ''An Epitome of All the Common and Statute Laws of this Nation, Now in Force''] (100MB PDF)
</div>

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*''[[Touch-Stone of Common Assurances|A Touch-Stone of Common Assurances]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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

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[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:London]]

Doctor and Student

2019-08-15T15:10:48Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Doctor and Student, or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England: Containing the Grounds of Those Laws, Together with Questions and Cases Concerning the Equity and Conscience Thereof: also Comparing the Civil, Canon, Common and Statute Laws, and Shewing Wherein They Vary from One Another''}}
===by Christopher Saint German===
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|pages=344, [39]
|desc=8vo (21 cm.)
|shelf=F-1
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_St._Germain Christopher Saint German] (c. 1460 – 1540/41) was a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Temple Middle Temple] in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.<ref>J. H. Baker, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24493 St German, Christopher (c.1460–1540/41)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> Born in 1460, Saint German was known for his scholarship and piety.<ref>R. H. Helmholz, "Christopher St. German and the Law of Custom," ''The University of Chicago Law Review'' 70, no. 1 (Winter 2003), 130.</ref> As an author, he is best known for his work ''Doctor and Student'', chiefly released in 1528.<ref>Ibid, 129.</ref> Initially, the piece was completely in Latin, but the language changed in later versions.<ref>Baker, "St German, Christopher." </ref>

''Doctor and Student'' proposed to "explore the relationship between the principles of English law and conscience."<ref>Helmholz, "Christopher St. German and the Law of Custom," 130.</ref> The format was a dialogue between a "Student of the English common law" and a "Doctor of Theology," in which they discussed the common law. The objectives of this work have been described as providing a description of the substantive law, discussing the tension between the common law and that of the church, and delving into "the role of conscience and equity in law, both in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Chancery court of Chancery] and the common law itself."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==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> suggest Wythe owned the sixteenth (1761) edition of this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., ''The Papers of John Marshall'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:47.</ref> The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the sixteenth edition.

[[File:SaintGermanDoctorAndStudent1761Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|500px|<center>Inscription, table of contents.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards with raised bands and lettering piece to the spine and endpapers renewed. Contains early owner signatures to the head of the title page and Table of Contents. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637877656904 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21568305230003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/SaintGermanDoctorAndStudent1761.pdf ''Doctor and Student''] (15MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=QgFCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR12&dq=Doctor+And+Student&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wgPfUZbGM_bI4AOV8ID4BQ&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Doctor%20And%20Student&f=false Google Books].

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[[Category:English Law]]
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Registrum Brevium

2019-08-15T15:06:25Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Registrum Brevium tam Originalium, quam Judicialium''}}
===ascribed to Ralph de Hengham===
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|shorttitle=Registrum Brevium
|author=[[:Category:Ralph de Hengham|Ralph de Hengham]]
|publoc=[[:Category:London|London]]
|publisher=Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, esquires, for Thomas Bassett ...
|year=1687
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|lang=[[:Category:Latin|Latin]]
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}}[[File:HenghamRegistrumBrevium1687InitialCapital.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Initial capital, first page of text.</center>]]"It is doubtful whether any book used by mediaeval practitioners had greater importance in the history of [English] law than the collection of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writ writs] known as ''Registrum Brevium''."<ref>Percy H. Winfield, ''The Chief Sources of English Legal History'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925), 298.</ref> Loosely translated "The Register of Writs," there were many printed editions and innumerable manuscript editions, few of which are precisely the same.<ref>Ibid.</ref> First printed in 1531 by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rastell William Rastell], it reached a fourth edition in 1687.

The 1687 edition is attributed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_de_Hengham Sir Ralph de Hengham] (1235 – 1311),<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 605.</ref> the first chief justice to explain the general point of law involved in each case for the benefit of students.<ref>Paul Brand, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12924 Hengham, Ralph (b. in or before 1235, d. 1311)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed November 14, 2013.</ref> He also authored several lectures on a variety of law topics.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Hengham served as a court clerk, but was rapidly appointed to his own judicial office in 1271.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Eventually he was promoted from the common bench to become chief justice of the court of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King%27s_Bench_%28England%29 King’s Bench] in 1274.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Hengham was dismissed from office in 1289 on corruption charges.<ref>Winfield, ''The Chief Sources of English Legal History'', 274.</ref> Hengham regained the King’s favor in 1300 when he was appointed as an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assizes Assize] judge.<ref>Brand, “Hengham, Ralph."</ref> He rejoined the King’s council by the end of that year. When the chief justice of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Common_Pleas_%28England%29 common bench] died in the summer of 1301, Hengham replaced him and served in that position until 1309.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Registrum brevium fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. The University of Virginia owns a copy of the fourth (1687) edition with the inscription "Given by Thos. Jefferson to D. Carr". 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 September 16, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1647 edition based on the University of Virginia copy. The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of this edition from the general rare books collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period-style full calf. The title page includes signatures and annotations.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637877442514 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21580095870003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/RegistrumBrevium1687.pdf ''Registrum Brevium''] (99MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
*Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=MJg0AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:English Law]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Probable Surviving Wythe Volumes]]
[[Category:Ralph de Hengham]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Latin]]
[[Category:London]]

Law of Covenants

2019-08-15T14:41:50Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Law of Covenants: a Treatise Explaining the Nature and Rules of the Several Sorts of Covenants''}}
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}}In the early eighteenth century, a covenant was "defined to be the Agreement or Consent of Two or more by Deed whereby either of the said Parties doth Promise to the other, That something is done already, or shall be done hereafter."<ref>''The Law of Covenants'' (London: J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq., 1713), 1.</ref>

The unidentified author of ''The Law of Covenants'' attempts to define and distinguish the various forms of covenants as they exist in the common law, including the difference between express and implicit covenants, personal and real covenants, joint and several covenants, and affirmative and negative covenants.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The book also delves into the procedure for bringing an action for breach of covenant, including identifying the parties against whom a suit may be brought, rules for joinder or severance, and determining damages.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Each chapter addresses a specific legal issue regarding covenants, and the margins of the book are often filled with the author’s tips and notes on the text; either defining terms and cases or reminding the reader that a principle might not be applicable in certain circumstances.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Law of] Covenants 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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> includes the second edition (1712) based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:309-310 [[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=328 no.1983]].</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 September 16, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. The first edition was published in 1711; the second, with similar imprint, in 1712." The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased a copy of the 1712 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full calf. Includes signatures of previous owners, "John Macpherson, Jr. 1771" and "Charles Swift" on the title page. Purchased from The Bookpress, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637877981463 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21585476350003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/LawOfCovenants1712.pdf ''The Law of Covenants''] (21MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:London]]

Philosophia Britannica

2019-08-15T14:36:46Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Philosophia Britannica: or, A New and Comprehensive System of the Newtonian Philosophy, Astronomy, and Geography, in a Course of Twelve Lectures, with Notes''}}
===by Benjamin Martin===
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|shorttitle=Philosophia Britannica
|vol=volume one
|author=[[:Category:Benjamin Martin|Benjamin Martin]]
|publoc=[[:Category:London|London]]
|publisher=Printed for John, Francis, Charles Rivington; and Thomas Carnan
|year=1788
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}}[[Wikipedia: Benjamin Martin (lexicographer)|Benjamin Martin]] (1704-1782), lexicographer, science lecturer, and scientific instrument maker, was born into a farming family in Surrey and spent the early part of his life working the lands.<ref>John R. Millburn, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18175 Martin, Benjamin (bap. 1705, d. 1782)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed November 21, 2013.</ref> In his twenties, Martin started a school in Sussex where he taught a range of subjects, including writing, mathematics, physics, and astronomy.<ref>Ibid; John R. Millburn, "The London Evening Courses of Benjamin Martin and James Ferguson, Eighteenth-Century Lecturers on Experimental Philosophy," ''Annals of Science'' 40, no. 5 (1983), 438.</ref><br />
<br />
In the 1740s, Martin began giving lectures and demonstrations in Bristol, Bath, and London, and in 1743, he published ''A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy''.<ref>Millburn, "Martin, Benjamin."</ref> Three years later, in 1747, he expanded this work into the two-volume ''Philosophia Britannica'', which was expanded again into a three volume edition in 1759.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Although the text of ''Philosophia Britannica'' matched that of the ''Course of Lectures'', Martin added detailed footnotes, which themselves took up more space than the main text.<ref>David A. Goss, "Benjamin Martin (1704-1782) and his Writings on the Eye and Eyeglasses," ''HindishgT: Journal of Optometry History'' 41, no. 2 (April 2010): 46.</ref> Lectures included in the book included "Mechanics," "Hydraulics," "Of Winds and Sounds," "Of Light and Colours," "Optics," "Astronomy," and "The Use of Globes." In the 1750s, the book was included as part of the course of study at Princeton, where it was used as the natural philosophy textbook.<ref>Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, John De Witt, and John Howard Van Amringe, ''Universities and Their Sons: History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Alumni and Recipients of Honorary Degrees'' (Boston: R. Herndon Company, 1898), 1:466.</ref> In 1785, [[Thomas Jefferson]] sent copies of Martin’s ''Philosophical Grammar'' and ''Philosophia Britannica'', along with various other titles, to his nephew [[Peter Carr]].<ref>Thomas Jefferson, “The Letters of Thomas Jefferson: To Peter Carr, Paris, August 19, 1785,” ''The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy'', Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, accessed October 9, 2014.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Martin’s Philosophia Britannica. 3.v. 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson, [[Thomas Jefferson 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 18, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Three-volume editions in octavo were published at London in 1759, 1771, and 1788." 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, rev. May, 2014.) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the second (1712) edition based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 4:31 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648125;view=1up;seq=45 [no.3728]].</ref> Because we do not know which edition Wythe owned, and because not all editions were available for purchase, the Wolf Law Library acquired a copy of the fourth (1788) edition.
[[File:MartinPhilosophiaBritannica1788V2Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf, volume two.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary speckled calf with red morocco gilt-lettered title labels and gilt-decorated red and black morocco volume labels. Includes the armorial bookplate of Ellis Wade, M.A., Rector of Blaxhall on the front pastedown of each volume. Volume two includes the inscription "Given by Rev. Wade to E. J. Denton of St. John's College Cambridge" on the front free endpaper.<br />
<br />
Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157660317778247 available on Flickr.] View the record for this view in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21561102980003196 William & Mary's online catalog].

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Philosophical Grammar|The Philosophical Grammar]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Benjamin Martin]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Science and Medicine]]
[[Category:Thomas Jefferson Randolph's Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Octavos]]

Reports, or New Cases

2019-08-15T14:34:38Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Reports, or New Cases: with Divers Resolutions and Judgements Given upon Solemn Arguments, and with Great Deliberation. And the Reasons and Causes of the Said Resolutions and Judgments''}}
===by John March===
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|author=[[:Category:John March|John March]]
|publoc=[[:Category:London|London]]
|publisher=Printed by M.F. for W. Lee, M. Walbanke, D. Pakeman, and G. Beadel
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}}[[Wikipedia: John March (barrister)|John March]] (1611/12? – 1657) is "probably the 'John Marche, St. Andrew Holborn London' who entered [[wikipedia:Barnard's Inn|Barnard's Inn]]" in 1635, then [[wikipedia:Gray's Inn|Gray's Inn]] in 1636. He was called to the bar in 1641.<ref>D. A. Orr, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18030 March, John (1611/12?–1657)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed June 27, 2013.</ref> March published a defense of the [[wikipedia:Long Parliament|Long Parliament's]] militia ordinance, ''An Argument or, Debate in Law: of the Great Question Concerning the Militia; as it is Now Settled by Ordinance of Both the Houses of Parliament'' in 1642, and quickly rose to prominence.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He followed this work with other publications, including the 1651 work for which he is best known, ''Amicus Republicae, the Commonwealth's Friend, or, An Exact and Speedie Course to Justice and Right, and for Preventing and Determining of Tedious Law-Suits'' in which he "held that although the core of the common law remained pure, over the centuries both procedural and substantive corruptions of it had crept into the administration of justice. He likened the common law to a tree that would grow better for 'pruning, and cutting off of its exuberant and unnecessary branches.'"<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Another of March's publications was a 1648 compilation of [[wikipedia:Court of King's Bench (England)|King's Bench]] reports, ''Reports, or New Cases: with Divers Resolutions and Judgements Given upon Solemn Arguments, and with Great Deliberation''. The reports earned March the faint praise of being "a mean reporter, but not to be rejected."<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 274.</ref>

[[File:MarchReportsOrNewCases1648Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|500px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Mentioned by [[George Wythe]] in his decision for [[Turpin v. Turpin]], "Chief justice Holt, in his argument, on that occasion, mentions two cases, one in Goldesborough 93, and the other in March 137 ..."<ref>George Wythe, ''Decision of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery: with Remarks upon Decrees by the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions'' (Richmond: Printed by Thomas Nicolson, 1795), 25.</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> suggests either the first edition of this title or ''Some New Cases in the Time of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Queen Mary'' published in 1586 and edited by John March. The Wolf Law Library chose to purchase a copy of March's ''Reports or, New Cases''.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked in period style with red morocco label ruled in gilt. Boards decorated with blind rules. Includes prior owner signature on title page.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637448350123/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21589527050003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/MarchReportsOrNewCases1648.pdf ''Reports, or New Cases''] (11MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:John March]]
[[Category:King's Bench Reports]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

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[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Quartos]]

Law of Covenants

2019-08-15T14:31:54Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Law of Covenants: a Treatise Explaining the Nature and Rules of the Several Sorts of Covenants''}}
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}}In the early eighteenth century, a covenant was "defined to be the Agreement or Consent of Two or more by Deed whereby either of the said Parties doth Promise to the other, That something is done already, or shall be done hereafter."<ref>''The Law of Covenants'' (London: J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq., 1713), 1.</ref>

The unidentified author of ''The Law of Covenants'' attempts to define and distinguish the various forms of covenants as they exist in the common law, including the difference between express and implicit covenants, personal and real covenants, joint and several covenants, and affirmative and negative covenants.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The book also delves into the procedure for bringing an action for breach of covenant, including identifying the parties against whom a suit may be brought, rules for joinder or severance, and determining damages.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Each chapter addresses a specific legal issue regarding covenants, and the margins of the book are often filled with the author’s tips and notes on the text; either defining terms and cases or reminding the reader that a principle might not be applicable in certain circumstances.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Law of] Covenants 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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> includes the second edition (1712) based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:309-310 [[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=328 no.1983]].</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 September 16, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. The first edition was published in 1711; the second, with similar imprint, in 1712." The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased a copy of the 1712 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full calf. Includes signatures of previous owners, "John Macpherson, Jr. 1771" and "Charles Swift" on the title page. Purchased from The Bookpress, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637877981463 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21585476350003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/LawOfCovenants1712.pdf ''The Law of Covenants''] (21MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:London]]

Law of Covenants

2019-08-15T14:30:03Z

Mvanwicklin:

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}}In the early eighteenth century, a covenant was "defined to be the Agreement or Consent of Two or more by Deed whereby either of the said Parties doth Promise to the other, That something is done already, or shall be done hereafter."<ref>''The Law of Covenants'' (London: J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq., 1713), 1.</ref>

The unidentified author of ''The Law of Covenants'' attempts to define and distinguish the various forms of covenants as they exist in the common law, including the difference between express and implicit covenants, personal and real covenants, joint and several covenants, and affirmative and negative covenants.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The book also delves into the procedure for bringing an action for breach of covenant, including identifying the parties against whom a suit may be brought, rules for joinder or severance, and determining damages.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Each chapter addresses a specific legal issue regarding covenants, and the margins of the book are often filled with the author’s tips and notes on the text; either defining terms and cases or reminding the reader that a principle might not be applicable in certain circumstances.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Law of] Covenants 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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> includes the second edition (1712) based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:309-310 [[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=328 no.1983]].</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 September 16, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. The first edition was published in 1711; the second, with similar imprint, in 1712." The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased a copy of the 1712 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full calf. Includes signatures of previous owners, "John Macpherson, Jr. 1771" and "Charles Swift" on the title page. Purchased from The Bookpress, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637877981463 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21585476350003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/LawOfCovenants1712.pdf ''The Law of Covenants''] (21MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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

[[Category:London]]

Law of Covenants

2019-08-15T14:20:05Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Law of Covenants: a Treatise Explaining the Nature and Rules of the Several Sorts of Covenants''}}
__NOTOC__
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|shorttitle=The Law of Covenants
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}}In the early eighteenth century, a covenant was "defined to be the Agreement or Consent of Two or more by Deed whereby either of the said Parties doth Promise to the other, That something is done already, or shall be done hereafter."<ref>''The Law of Covenants'' (London: J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq., 1713), 1.</ref>

The unidentified author of ''The Law of Covenants'' attempts to define and distinguish the various forms of covenants as they exist in the common law, including the difference between express and implicit covenants, personal and real covenants, joint and several covenants, and affirmative and negative covenants.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The book also delves into the procedure for bringing an action for breach of covenant, including identifying the parties against whom a suit may be brought, rules for joinder or severance, and determining damages.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Each chapter addresses a specific legal issue regarding covenants, and the margins of the book are often filled with the author’s tips and notes on the text; either defining terms and cases or reminding the reader that a principle might not be applicable in certain circumstances.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Law of] Covenants 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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> includes the second edition (1712) based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:309-310 [[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=328 no.1983]].</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 September 16, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. The first edition was published in 1711; the second, with similar imprint, in 1712." The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased a copy of the 1712 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full calf. Includes signatures of previous owners, "John Macpherson, Jr. 1771" and "Charles Swift" on the title page. Purchased from The Bookpress, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637877981463 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21585476350003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/LawOfCovenants1712.pdf ''The Law of Covenants''] (21MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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

Essay on the Law of Bailments

2019-08-15T14:15:05Z

Mvanwicklin:

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===by Sir William Jones===
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|lang=[[:Category:English|English]]
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}}[[wikipedia:William Jones (judge)|Sir William Jones]] (1566 – 1640) spent some time at [[wikipedia:Furnival's Inn|Furnival's Inn]] before being admitted to [[wikipedia:Lincoln's Inn|Lincoln's Inn]] in 1587. He was called to the bar in 1595. In 1617 he became [[wikipedia:Serjeant_at_law|serjeant-at-law]] and was appointed chief justice of the [[wikipedia:Court of King's Bench (Ireland)|King's Bench]] in Ireland. An appointment as justice to the [[wikipedia:Court of Common Pleas (England)|Court of Common Pleas]] in England followed in 1621 and a transfer to the English [[wikipedia:Court of King's Bench (England)|King's Bench]] in 1624.<ref>Christopher W. Brooks, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15102 Jones, Sir William (1566–1640)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 23, 2013.</ref>

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}}''Essay on the Law of Bailments'', first published in 1781, has been described as "one of the most remarkable books" of its period in which "the author's knowledge of jurisprudence, Roman law, Greek law, Mohammedan law, Mosaic law, Hindu law, and Visigothic law, is applied to elucidate its underlaying principles."<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:393.</ref> Another scholar, while noting that it "has ever been admired for its artistic and scholar-like finish", wrote that "it possesses very great merits as a literary production, but moderate value as a legal work for the present day."<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 429.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[Thomas Jefferson]] listed "[L]aw of bailments. 8vo." in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] in the section of titles he kept for himself. 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 1796 edition published in Boston based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:309 [[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=327 no.1982]].</ref> This may be Wythe's volume, but the book includes no markings to verify Wythe's ownership. [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 lists the London first edition (1781), but notes that the 1796 edition at the Library of Congress may be the proper edition. The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the 1796 Boston edition from another rare book collection to the George Wythe Collection.
[[File:JonesEssayOnTheLawOfBailments1796Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Inscriptions, front free endpaper.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in early full calf with recent reback, original spine and label attached. Includes the bookplate of Jeremiah Evarts with the Latin motto "Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus" (Life grants nothing to mortals without great work) on the front pastedown. Signed "Ebenezer Baldwin [1815]" and "Roger S. Baldwin, Jr. New York, 1848" on the front flyleaf. The signature of "Eben. Baldwin 1813" is also on the front board. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157659740887728 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21550254860003196 this book in William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/JonesEssayOnTheLawOfBailments1796.pdf ''An Essay on the Law of Bailments''] (4MB PDF)
</div>

==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Reports de Sir William Jones|Les Reports de Sir William Jones, Chevalier]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

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[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Jefferson's Books]]
[[Category:Possible Surviving Wythe Volumes]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]
[[Category:William Jones]]

[[Category:Boston]]
[[Category:Duodecimos]]
[[Category:English]]

Homeri Ilias

2019-08-15T14:07:52Z

Mvanwicklin:

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===by Homer===
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|author=[[:Category:Homer|Homer]]
|editor=[[:Category:Samuel Clarke|Samuel Clarke]]
|edition=Third
|lang=[[:Category:Greek|Greek]] and [[:Category:Latin|Latin]]
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}}[[File:HomeriIlias1740Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]]This work contains Homer’s ''Iliad'' in Greek and Latin with annotations by [[Wikipedia: Samuel Clarke| Samuel Clarke]]. Clarke (1675-1729) was an influential British philosopher and "a leading figure in Newton’s circle."<ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2009/entries/clarke/ "Samuel Clarke"] by Ezio Vailati and Timothy Yenter in ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', ed. by Edward Zalta (Stanford, Summer 2009).</ref> Clarke published his translations of Books 1-12 of the ''Iliad'' in 1729. Books 13-24 were published in 1732, three years after Clarke's death.<ref>Hugh Chisholm, ed. “Clarke, Samuel.” ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' (11th ed.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911).</ref>
<br/>
Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Iliad'' is an epic poem of a heroic or tragic nature, consisting of 24 books, all of which are original except for Book Ten, which was likely added later.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1070 "Homer"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> It tells the tale of the wrath of Achilles during the last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The war began when Agamemnon led a unified force of Greek warriors across the Aegean Sea to attack Troy under the pretense of rescuing his sister-in-law, Helen (wife of Menelaus), from the Trojan prince Paris. Homer begins his narration in the tenth year of the war, covering several weeks during the war and focusing on the anger of Achilles at not being appropriately respected by Menelaus. Significantly described in the ''Iliad'' are the death of Patroclus (Achilles’ foster brother and alleged lover) and the subsequent vengeance killing of Hector (the oldest son of King Priam of Troy). The respect and compassion between supposed enemies Achilles and Priam when the former returns Hector’s body from the Danaan camp is an example of the humanity Greeks expected to be shown to one another even during war. The story ends with the funeral of Hector. Homer does not address the death of Achilles, the Trojan Horse or the fall of Troy. All of those stories come to us from the Latin poet Virgil’s epic, ''The Aeneid''.
[[File:HomeriIlias1740v1Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front free endpaper, volume one.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
We know George Wythe definitely owned the 1740 edition of Samuel Clarke's Greek and Latin edition of ''The Illiad''. A copy of volume one at the University of Virginia includes Wythe's [[George Wythe's bookplate|bookplate]]. The title is also listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "[Homeri Ilias. Gr. Lat], Clarke. 2d. vol. 8vo." and was given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson, [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. Jefferson's entry suggests he only inherited the second volume or compiled his list before he located volume one. 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> assumes the volume inherited by Jefferson came from the same 1740 edition as the University of Virginia volume one. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed February 27, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing notes "Vol. 2 only. Precise edition unknown. Several two-volume editions of Clarke's translation were published in octavo, the first in 1735." and "Vol. 1 of this set, containing Wythe's armorial bookplate, is at the University of Virginia, Special Collections." The Wolf Law Library agreed with Brown and purchased a copy of the 1740 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full calf. Spine features raised bands with gilt rules, gilt decorative elements and red morocco label with gilt lettering. Both volumes signed "Pat. Grant" on the front free endpaper.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637698022896 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21564015690003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homerou Iliados|Tēs tou Homērou Iliados]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume one of this book from the [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433089884716;view=1up;seq=7 Hathi Trust.]<br />
Read volume two of this book from the [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433089884757;view=1up;seq=7 Hathi Trust.]

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New Virginia Justice

2019-08-15T14:05:33Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The New Virginia Justice, Comprising the Office and Authority of a Justice of The Peace, in the Commonwealth of Virginia''}}
===by William Waller Hening===
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}}[[Wikipedia: William Waller Hening| William Waller Hening]] (1767 – 1828), a Virginia lawyer, legal editor, and representative to the Virginia House of Delegates, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia in 1767. After [[wikipedia:Reading law|reading law]], he was admitted to the bar in Fredericksburg in 1789 and the bar of the Stafford County Court in 1790.<ref>Waverly K. Winfree, "[http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00406.html Hening, William Waller]," ''American National Biography Online'' (Feb. 2000- ), accessed November 11, 2013.</ref> In 1793, he moved to Charlottesville, and in 1804 was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates representing Albemarle County. Three years later, membership on the Executive Council prompted his relocation to Richmond.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1810, Hening relinquished his seat on the council to accept the position of clerk of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond district. He served in this capacity until his death.<ref>Ibid.</ref><br />

[[File:HeningNewVirginiaJustice1795Subscribers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Subscribers to Hening's ''The New Virginia Justice,'' among whom is listed "[[George Wythe]], Richm. city."]]
Beginning in 1795, Hening steadily contributed to legal literature as an author or editor. He collaborated with William Munford to produce a number of titles, including the four volume set of ''The Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia'' (1810) and ''Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia'' (1819). During this time he also wrote ''The American Pleader and Lawyer's Guide'' (1811) and began work on ''The Statutes at Large, Being a collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619''. Printed between 1809 and 1823, the set eventually reached 13 volumes.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

''The New Virginia Justice'' was a handbook for magistrates that incorporated Virginia laws since the Revolution. While lamenting that he was tasked to convey all the necessary information regarding the topic "in a single octavo volume of six hundres pages," Hening wrote, "it will be found that nothing material relating to the office of a Justice of the Peace, ''out of court'', has been omitted.—That many important points of legal knowledge respecting the practical part of his duty, ''in court'', are conveyed ..."<ref>William Waller Henning, ''The New Virginia Justice, Comprising the Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, in the Commonwealth of Virginia'' (Richmond: Printed by T. Nicolson, 1795), preface.</ref> First published in 1795, ''The New Virginia Justice'' was widely disseminated throughout Virginia, and its popularity demanded several subsequent editions.<ref>Winfree, "Hening, William Waller."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
"George Wythe, Richm. city." is listed as a subscriber to the first (1795) edition.<ref>Henning, ''The New Virginia Justice'', "Subscribers' Names," [19].</ref> The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of this edition from the general rare books collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf. Spine features gilt rules and red morocco label with gilt lettering as well as a leather owner's label "N. Turnbull." Front pastedown has former owner's signature,"Sophia Potts". Signature of G. Deneale is on front free endpaper, front flyleaf, and title page.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637447422443 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA51615782920003196 William & Mary's online catalog].

===Full text===
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/HeningNewVirginiaJustice1795.pdf ''The New Virginia Justice''] (25MB PDF)
</div>

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</center>

==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

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

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:Octavos]]
[[Category:Richmond]]

Law of Evidence

2019-08-15T14:02:28Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Law of Evidence''}}
===by Geoffrey Gilbert===
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}}[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Gilbert Geoffrey Gilbert] (sometimes Jeffray or Jeffrey Gilbert) (1674-1726) was admitted to Inner Temple in 1662 and joined the bar in 1668. He became Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1715 and rose to the position of Chief Baron of exchequer of England in 1725.<ref>M. McNair, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10688?docPos=1 Gilbert, Sir Jeffray (1674–1726)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed April 20, 2015.</ref>

As a lawyer and judge, Gilbert had an esteemed reputation, but his decisions were not widely reported or cited. Posthumously Gilbert has been better regarded for his engagement in a general treatise on English law in the 'Institutional' model. It was separated into sections of "Persons," "Things," and "Actions," the text of which was likely meant for publication.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

While the collection involved at least two other contributors, Gilbert was instrumental in the structure, writing of text, and editing of others’ contributions. However, Gilbert discontinued the project before 1710 and, ultimately, the sections were not published as a collection. Gilbert left some of his manuscripts in Ireland, while twelve other sections were published fragmentally as individual treatises from 1730-1763.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

The section, "Evidence," was already in circulation as an individual, albeit unpublished, manuscript in 1710 and is cited as Gilbert’s most known and influential work. Publication of the section, as ''The Law of Evidence'', occurred in 1754. The treatise was expanded and republished in six more editions, significantly impacting evidence law into the mid nineteenth century. It was acclaimed by Blackstone as "a work which it is impossible to abstract or abridge without losing some beauty and destroying the chain of the whole."<ref>William Blackstone, ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'' (Oxford : Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1768), 3:367.</ref> Gilbert’s ''Law of Evidence'' is noted for distinguishing between written and unwritten forms of evidence, which were enveloped in his principle of “the best evidence rule”.<ref>John H. Langbein, "Historical Foundations of the Law of Evidence: A View from the Ryder Sources," ''Columbia Law Review'' 96, no. 5 (1996): 1172-1173.</ref> The premise of Gilbert’s principle is that secondary documentation will not be acceptable evidence when the preferred, original document is available.

Gilbert’s writings are indicative of Whig interpretations of law during the early eighteenth century, as well as the development of the modern, legal treatise. However, the nature of publication has led some to question attribution of ''Evidence'' and other sections of the treatise to Gilbert.<ref>M. McNair, "Gilbert, Sir Jeffray (1674–1726)." </ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[File:GilbertLawOfEvidence1760Inscriptions.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscriptions, front flyleaf.</center>]]
Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012, rev. May, 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the second edition (1760) of this title based on entries in the manuscript version of John Marshall's law notes. Brown also notes that Wythe cited Gilbert's ''Law of Evidence'' (multiple times) in his second argument for the plaintiff in ''[[Bolling v. Bolling]]''.<ref>''Thomas Jefferson and Bolling v. Bolling: Law and the Legal Profession in Pres-Revolutionary America'' ed. Bernard Schwartz, Barbara Wilcie Kern, R. B. Bernstein (San Marino, CA: The Huntingdon Library; New York: New York University School of Law, 1997), 294-298.</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion, and purchased a copy of the 1760 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in recent limp vellum.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157660159092135 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21570814300003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*''[[Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills|The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills]]''
*''[[Law of Uses and Trusts|The Law of Uses and Trusts]]''
*''[[History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery|The History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery]]''
*''[[Reports of Cases in Equity]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Quartos]]

Law of Uses and Trusts

2019-08-15T14:00:58Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Law of Uses and Trusts: Collected and Digested in a Proper Order, from the Reports of Adjudg'd Cases, in the Courts of Law and Equity, and Other Books of Authority. Together with a Treatise of Dower, to Which is Added, a Complete Table of All the Matters Therein Contain'd''}}
===by Geoffrey Gilbert===
__NOTOC__
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}}[[File:GilbertLawOfUsesAndTrusts1734HalfTitle.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]] [[wikipedia:Jeffrey Gilbert (judge)|Sir Geoffrey Gilbert]] (sometimes Jeffray or Jeffrey Gilbert) (1674 – 1726) was a British attorney, judge, and legal scholar. Not much is known about Gilbert's early life, but based on his later works it is clear that he received a classical education as a child.<ref>M. Macnair, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/10688 Gilbert, Sir Jeffray (1674–1726)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed October 17, 2013.</ref> He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1692 and called to the bar in 1698. Gilbert was not a particularly well-known lawyer early in his career, but in 1715 he was appointed a puisne judge of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Soon after he was given that position, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer died unexpectedly. No other judges were prepared to take his place, so the position was given to Gilbert.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Gilbert's defining moment came in the case of ''Annesley v. Sherlock'', which turned on the issue of whether appeals from equity jurisdictions in Ireland should be handled by the Irish or by the British House of Lords.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Gilbert followed the orders of the British Lords in preference to those of the Irish, which led to the Irish Lords ordering his arrest.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Following Gilbert’s display of British loyalty, he was rewarded with the post of puisne baron of the English exchequer.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was later appointed to the commission for the English Great Seal and knighted.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Shortly before Gilbert's death he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.<ref>"[http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=7&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27gilbert%27%29 Gilbert; Sir; Jeffrey (1674 - 1726)]," The Royal Society website, accessed October 17, 2013.</ref>

Despite the influence he wielded during his lifetime, Gilbert's major contributions to law came posthumously. After his death a large collection of manuscripts was found covering almost the entirety of English law and practice.<ref>Macnair, "Gilbert, Sir Jeffray."</ref> These works were gradually published in the decades following Gilbert's death, and they remained influential for decades after their publication. Some legal historians have called Gilbert probably the most eminent author who ever sat on the Irish Bench.<ref> F. Elrington Ball, "VII," in ''The Judges in Ireland, 1221-1921'' (Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2005), 82.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "[Law of] Uses & trusts 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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> includes the first edition while [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 September 16, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Octavo editions were published at London in 1734 and 1741." The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's recommendation and moved a copy of the first edition from another rare book collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary blind calf. Inscribed "P. Warburton" on the half-title. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637448808204 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21578172240003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/GilbertLawOfUsesAndTrusts1734.pdf ''The Law of Uses and Trusts''] (17MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills|The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills]]''
*''[[Law of Evidence|The Law of Evidence]]
*''[[History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery|The History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery]]''
*''[[Reports of Cases in Equity]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:Geoffrey Gilbert]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Property]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Octavos]]

Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills

2019-08-15T14:00:03Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills, to Which is Added, Choice Precedents of Wills''}}
===by Sir Geoffrey Gilbert===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Gilbert_(judge) Sir Geoffrey Gilbert] (sometimes Jeffray or Jeffrey Gilbert) (1674 – 1726) was a British attorney, judge, and legal scholar. Not much is known about Gilbert’s early life, but based on his later works it is clear that he received a classical education as a child.<ref>M. Macnair, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/10688 Gilbert, Sir Jeffray (1674 – 1726)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed October 17, 2013.</ref> He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1692 and called to the bar in 1698. Gilbert was not a particularly well-known lawyer early in his career, but in 1715 he was appointed a puisne judge of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Soon after he was given that position, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer died unexpectedly. No other judges were prepared to take his place so the position was given to Gilbert.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

[[File:GilbertLawOfDevisesRevocationsAndLastWills1756InscriptionFPD.jpg|left|thumb|400px|<center>Previous owner's inscription, front pastedown.</center>]]
Gilbert’s defining moment came in the case of ''Annesley v. Sherlock'' which turned on the issue of whether appeals from equity jurisdictions in Ireland should be handled by the Irish or by the British House of Lords.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Gilbert followed the orders of the British Lords in preference to those of the Irish, which led to the Irish Lords ordering his arrest.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Following Gilbert’s display of British loyalty, he was rewarded with the post of puisne baron of the English exchequer.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was later appointed to the commission for the English Great Seal and knighted.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Shortly before Gilbert's death he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.<ref>"[http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=7&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27gilbert%27%29 Gilbert; Sir; Jeffrey (1674 - 1726)]," The Royal Society website, accessed October 17, 2013.</ref>

Despite the influence he wielded during his lifetime, Gilbert’s major contributions to law came posthumously. After his death a large collection of manuscripts was found covering almost the entirety of English law and practice.<ref>Macnair, "Gilbert, Sir Jeffray."</ref> These works were gradually published in the decades following Gilbert's death, and they remained influential for decades after their publication. Some legal historians have called Gilbert probably the most eminent author who ever sat on the Irish Bench.<ref> F. Elrington Ball, "VII," in ''The Judges in Ireland, 1221-1921'' (Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2005), 82.</ref> Among these treatises, ''The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Will'', published in 1757, is a compilation of the various laws governing wills. As one author describes it "[i]n this book the whole law of this subject is considered, with many references to the best authorities ..."<ref>Richard Whalley Bridgman, ''A Short View of Legal Bibliography: Containing Some Critical Observations on the Authority of the Reporters and Other Law Writers'' (London: Printed for W. Reed, 1807), 133.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Law of Devises 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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> includes the first edition while [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on September 16, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Octavo editions were published at London in 1756 and 1773." The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the first edition.
[[File:GilbertLawOfDevisesRevocationsAndLastWills1756Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|400px|<center>Previous owner's inscription, front free endpaper.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full brown leather binding with five raised bands on the spine and blind tooling to boards. Previous owner's names on front pastedown, front free endpaper, and title page have been struck through. Purchased from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637449294073 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21568346660003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/GilbertLawOfDevisesRevocationsAndLastWill1756.pdf ''The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills''] (10MB PDF)
</div>

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Law of Evidence|The Law of Evidence]]
*''[[Law of Uses and Trusts|The Law of Uses and Trusts]]''
*''[[History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery|The History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery]]''
*''[[Reports of Cases in Equity]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:Geoffrey Gilbert]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]
[[Category:Wills]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Octavos]]

Law of Uses and Trusts

2019-08-15T13:58:47Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Law of Uses and Trusts: Collected and Digested in a Proper Order, from the Reports of Adjudg'd Cases, in the Courts of Law and Equity, and Other Books of Authority. Together with a Treatise of Dower, to Which is Added, a Complete Table of All the Matters Therein Contain'd''}}
===by Geoffrey Gilbert===
__NOTOC__
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}}[[File:GilbertLawOfUsesAndTrusts1734HalfTitle.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]] [[wikipedia:Jeffrey Gilbert (judge)|Sir Geoffrey Gilbert]] [sometimes Jeffray or Jeffrey Gilbert] (1674 – 1726) was a British attorney, judge, and legal scholar. Not much is known about Gilbert's early life, but based on his later works it is clear that he received a classical education as a child.<ref>M. Macnair, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/10688 Gilbert, Sir Jeffray (1674–1726)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed October 17, 2013.</ref> He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1692 and called to the bar in 1698. Gilbert was not a particularly well-known lawyer early in his career, but in 1715 he was appointed a puisne judge of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Soon after he was given that position, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer died unexpectedly. No other judges were prepared to take his place, so the position was given to Gilbert.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Gilbert's defining moment came in the case of ''Annesley v. Sherlock'', which turned on the issue of whether appeals from equity jurisdictions in Ireland should be handled by the Irish or by the British House of Lords.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Gilbert followed the orders of the British Lords in preference to those of the Irish, which led to the Irish Lords ordering his arrest.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Following Gilbert’s display of British loyalty, he was rewarded with the post of puisne baron of the English exchequer.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was later appointed to the commission for the English Great Seal and knighted.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Shortly before Gilbert's death he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.<ref>"[http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=7&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27gilbert%27%29 Gilbert; Sir; Jeffrey (1674 - 1726)]," The Royal Society website, accessed October 17, 2013.</ref>

Despite the influence he wielded during his lifetime, Gilbert's major contributions to law came posthumously. After his death a large collection of manuscripts was found covering almost the entirety of English law and practice.<ref>Macnair, "Gilbert, Sir Jeffray."</ref> These works were gradually published in the decades following Gilbert's death, and they remained influential for decades after their publication. Some legal historians have called Gilbert probably the most eminent author who ever sat on the Irish Bench.<ref> F. Elrington Ball, "VII," in ''The Judges in Ireland, 1221-1921'' (Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2005), 82.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "[Law of] Uses & trusts 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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> includes the first edition while [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 September 16, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Octavo editions were published at London in 1734 and 1741." The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's recommendation and moved a copy of the first edition from another rare book collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary blind calf. Inscribed "P. Warburton" on the half-title. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637448808204 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21578172240003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/GilbertLawOfUsesAndTrusts1734.pdf ''The Law of Uses and Trusts''] (17MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills|The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills]]''
*''[[Law of Evidence|The Law of Evidence]]
*''[[History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery|The History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery]]''
*''[[Reports of Cases in Equity]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:Geoffrey Gilbert]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Property]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Octavos]]

Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law

2019-08-15T13:45:08Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law, Taken by Those Late and Most Judicious Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas, Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough''}}
===by Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough===
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}}[[File:BrownlowReportsOfDiversChoiceCases1675Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]]
[[Wikipedia: Richard Brownlow| Richard Brownlow]] (1553-1638) entered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Temple Middle Temple] in 1583 and became Chief Protonotary of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Common_Pleas_%28England%29 Court of Common Pleas] in 1590, a position he held until his death. <ref>Christopher W. Brooks, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/3715 Brownlow, Richard (1553–1638)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 18, 2013.</ref> [[Wikipedia: John Goldesburg| John Goldesborough]] (1568-1618) joined the Middle Temple in 1613, the year he was also appointed Second Prothonotary of Common Pleas.<ref>David Ibbetson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10905 Goldesburg, John (1568–1618)], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 18, 2013.</ref><br />
<br />
Historians differ somewhat on the authorship of the two volumes of Brownlow's and Goldesborough's reports. John WIlliam Wallace writes, "the first volume is by Brownlow and Goldesborough; the second by Brownlow alone."<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 164.</ref> One Brownlow biographer disagrees with the joint attribution, stating the "collection of ''Reports'' ... had evidently been gathered by Brownlow alone."<ref>Brooks, "Brownlow, Richard."</ref> In contrast, a Goldesborough biographer claims, "Contemporary evidence is unanimous in attributing the first part of these to Goldesburg, and there is no good reason to doubt his authorship."<ref>Ibbetson, "Goldesburg, John."</ref> Regardless of the how attribution is distributed among the two, "these reports are not in the first rank of Elizabethan and Jacobean reports, they are workmanlike and succinct, paying particular attention to points of process and procedure."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==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), 9 (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> suggest Wythe owned the 1675 edition of the first and second parts of this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., ''The Papers of John Marshall,'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:42.</ref> The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy which combined the 3rd edition (1675) of volume one with the 2nd edition (also 1675) of volume two bound together.
[[File:BrownlowReportsOfDiversChoiceCases1675Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in early, perhaps contemporary, calf with blind rules, red morocco label, and gilt lettering to spine. Cover includes tooled design. Contains brief description noted on edge of text-block and the inscription "I warrant these Reports [???], Dan: Browne" on the front free endpaper. Purchased from Longland Books.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637635824584 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21546835920003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*''[[Brownlow Latine Redivivus]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Common Pleas Reports]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:John Goldesborough]]
[[Category:Richard Brownlow]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

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[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Quartos]]

Brownlow Latine Redivivus

2019-08-15T13:42:57Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Brownlow Latine Redivivus: a Book of Entries, of Such Declarations, Informations, Pleas in Barr and Abatement, Replications, Rejoynders, Issues, Verdicts, Bills of Exception to Verdicts, Judgements, Demurrers, and other Parts of Pleadings, (Now in Use) in Personal and Mixt Actions; Contained in the First and Second Parts of the Declarations and pleadings of Richard Brownlow''}}
===by Richard Brownlow===
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}}[[Wikipedia: Richard Brownlow| Richard Brownlow]] (1553 – 1638) entered the [[wikipedia:Middle Temple|Middle Temple]] in 1583 and became Chief Protonotary of the [[wikipedia:Court of Common Pleas (England)|Court of Common Pleas]] in 1590, a position he held until his death. <ref>Christopher W. Brooks, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/3715 Brownlow, Richard (1553–1638)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> The position was "one of the most important and lucrative clerical offices in a period when court business was growing at an unprecedented pace."<ref>Ibid.</ref> It was worth approximately £3000 a year.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Brownlow maintained very careful records, many of which can be found in ''Brownlow Latine Redivivus''.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ''Brownlow Latine Redivicus'' was originally an English translation of Brownlow's Latin precedents for plea roll entries, and most of its material dates from 1600–1615.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It was published several times during the 1650s after Parliament made English the official legal language of record.<ref>Ibid.</ref> After Latin was reestablished as the official legal language of record during the 1660s, it was translated into Latin and republished. The 1693 edition is considered "the first complete edition of Brownlow's Forms."<ref>W. Harold Maxwell, ''A Bibliography of English Law to 1650, Including Books Dealing with that Period, Printed from 1480 to 1925'' (''Sweet & Maxwell's Complete Law Book Catalogue'', v.1) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, 1925), 179.</ref>
[[File:BrownlowBookOfEntries1693Marginalia.jpg|left|thumb|450px|<center>Marginalia, page 130.</center>]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
There is no doubt that Wythe owned this title—a copy of the 1693 edition of ''Brownlow Latine Redivivus'' at the Library of Congress includes George Wythe's bookplate. [[Thomas Jefferson]] also listed ''Brownlow's entries'' in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]], noting that he kept the volume himself. He later sold it to the Library of Congress in 1815. 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 1693 edition ''Brownlow Latine Redivivus''. The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the same edition from another rare book collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
[[File:BrownlowBookOfEntries1693Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Inscription (inverted), last page of text.</center>]]
Rebound in period style with green title label and raised bands to spine. Includes the signature "T. Tomlinson Temple" on the title page and " "George Bougthon" (inverted) on the last page of text. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157660111211095 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21573818070003196 William & Mary's online catalog].

===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/BrownlowLatineRedidivus1693.pdf ''Brownlow Latine Redivivus''] (48MB PDF)
</div>

==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law|Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law, Taken by Those Late and Most Judicious Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas, Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=nCw0AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Jefferson's Books]]
[[Category:Known Surviving Wythe Volumes]]
[[Category:Richard Brownlow]]
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[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Latin]]
[[Category:London]]

Countrey Justice

2019-08-15T13:38:57Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Countrey Justice: Containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace as well in and out of their Sessions''}}
===by Michael Dalton===
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}}[[Wikipedia: Michael Dalton (legal writer)| Michael Dalton]] (1564 – 1644) was a barrister and legal writer, a member of [[wikipedia:Lincoln's Inn|Lincoln's Inn]], and a justice of the peace in the counties of Essex and, later, Cambridgeshire.<ref>D.A. Orr, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7067 Dalton, Michael (1564-1644)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed May 21, 2015.</ref> ''The Countrey Justice'', a manual for justices of the peace and local magistrates, remains his best known work.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

[[File:DaltonCountreyJustice1666InitialCapital.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Initial capital.</center>]]
The office of justice of the peace originated during the Middle Ages, when their primary responsibility was to suppress riots and keep the peace.<ref>Mike Widener, "[http://library.law.yale.edu/news/taussig-collection-justice-peace-manuals The Taussig Collection: Justice of the peace manuals]," ''Yale Law School: Lillian Goldman Law Library'', April 21, 2014.</ref> By the sixteenth century, their power had increased and come to include various judicial and administrative tasks.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Most justices of the peace, however, had no legal training, and a number of justice of the peace manuals were published to provide guidance in the form of clear, comprehensive, and easy to understand instruction.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

''The Countrey Justice'' was among the most popular manuals, and was published in at least twenty editions between 1618 and 1746.<ref>Helen L. Hull, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=gBkWeMDgHpQC&pg=PA37 'Lowe and lay ministers of the peace;' The Proliferation of Officeholding Manuals in Early Modern England]," in ''Renaissance Papers 2009'', ed. Christopher Cobb (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010), 47.</ref> It provided a summary of the current law on a diverse array of subjects, from robbery and murder, to cattle and sheep, and included a particularly detailed description of the proper procedure for prosecuting witches. One of the earliest manuals to be arranged in alphabetical order, Dalton’s book was popular both in England and New England, where it provided a ready and accessible summary of the English common law for the new colonies.<ref>Edgar J. McManus, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=CkNMR7L68I0C&pg=PA3 Laws for Living Saints]," in ''Law and Liberty in Early New England: Criminal Justice and Due Process, 1620-1692'' (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), 12.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
In her 1975 [[Dean Bibliography|Colonial Williamsburg memo]], Barbara Dean lists Dalton's ''Countrey Justice'' as a book Wythe could have had in his collection, citing "Virginia Lawyers, 1680-1776: The Birth of an American Profession" (1967), which lists it as a common title in Colonial lawyers' libraries.<ref>Alan Smith, "Virginia Lawyers, 1680-1776: The Birth of an American Profession" (Ph.D. dissertation, John Hopkins University, 1967).</ref> Wythe definitely did own a copy of Dalton's ''[[Officium Vicecomitum|Officium Vicecomitum]]'', which appears in the [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory of books]] Wythe willed to [[Thomas Jefferson]] in 1806 as "Dalton's sheriff. fol." 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 1666 edition of ''Countrey Justice'' and notes that "Virginia statutes required that each county justice have a copy ... as a primary reference work." Since Wythe was a justice of the peace in Elizabeth City County, he must have owned one. Brown selected the 1666 edition based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress in 1815,<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:303 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=321 [no.1966]].</ref> but notes that which copy Wythe owned is unknown. The Wolf Law Library moved an existing copy of the 1666 edition to the George Wythe Collection.

[[File:DaltonCountreyJustice1666Inscription.jpg|center|thumb|400px|<center>Manuscript notes, front fly-leaf.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Recent full blind calf, gold tooled edges; annotation [in Law French?] upside-down in brown/black ink on flyleaf.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157659732745029 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21551845170003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/DaltonCountreyJustice1666.pdf ''The Countrey Justice''] (37MB PDF)
</div>

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*''[[Officium Vicecomitum|Officium Vicecomitum: The Office and Avthoritie of Sherifs]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:London]]

Book of Entries

2019-08-15T13:28:27Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''A Book of Entries: Containing Perfect and Approved Presidents of Counts, Declarations, Informations, Pleints, Indictments, Barres, Replications, Rejoynders, Pleadings, Processes, Continuances, Essoines, Issues, Defaults, Departure in Despight of the Court, Demurrers, Trials, Judgements, Executions, and All Other Matters and Proceedings (in Effect) Concerning the Practick Part of the Laws of England, in Actions Real, Personal, and Mixt, and in Appeals''}}
===by Sir Edward Coke===
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|author=[[:Category:Edward Coke|Sir Edward Coke]]
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}}Born on February 1, 1552 at Mileham, Norfolk, [[wikipedia:Edward Coke|Sir Edward Coke]] (1552 – 1634) was arguably the most prominent lawyer, legal writer, and politician during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a defender of the common law over the use of the Stuarts' royal prerogative.<ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/124844/Sir-Edward-Coke Sir Edward Coke]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref>

[[File:CokeABookOfEntries1671Inscriptions.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Inscriptions, front flyleaf.</center>]]
Coke began his studies in 1567 at [[wikipedia:Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College, Cambridge]] during the years of the [[wikipedia:Vestiarian controversy|Vestiarian controversy]]—puritan protests against the Church of England. In 1572 he moved on to study at the [[wikipedia:Inner Temple|Inner Temple]], where he was admitted to the bar on April 20, 1578. Coke quickly rose to prominence through his successful execution of several noteworthy cases, such as [[wikipedia:Rule in Shelley's Case|''Shelley's'' case]]. Coke's analytical efforts helped to refine the legal doctrines of English law, and his reputation won him a seat in Parliament. He would later become the Speaker of the House of Commons and eventually attorney general.<ref>Allen D. Boyer, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/5826 Coke, Sir Edward (1552–1634)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 18, 2013.</ref> In 1606, after being created [[wikipedia:Serjeant-at-law|serjeant-at-law]], Coke was appointed chief justice of the [[wikipedia:Court of Common Pleas (England)|Court of Common Pleas]]. He was transferred, against his will, to chief justice of the [[wikipedia:Court of King's Bench (England)|Court of King's Bench]] in 1613; he also became a member of the [[wikipedia:Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]].<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."</ref>

After several political and judicial skirmishes with [[wikipedia:James VI and I|James I]] and [[wikipedia:|Francis Bacon]], Coke was suspended from the privy council and removed from the bench in 1616.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "Sir Edward Coke."</ref> Although he never returned to the bench, Coke did return to Parliament and was elected to that body four times from 1620 to 1629. During this time he took a lead in creating and composing the [[wikipedia:Petition of Right|Petition of Right]]. "This document cited the Magna Carta and reminded Charles I that the law gave Englishmen their rights, not the king ... Coke's petition focused on ... due process, protection from unjust seizure of property or imprisonment, the right to trial by jury of fellow Englishmen, and protection from unjust punishments or excessive fines."<ref>''Bill of Rights Institute'' website, s.v. "[http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/educator-resources/americapedia/americapedia-documents/petition-of-right/ Petition of Right (1628)]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> After this triumph, Coke spent his remaining years at his home, Stoke Poges, working on ''The Institutes of the Laws of England'', another endeavor for which he is rightly famous.<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."</ref>

''A Book of Entries'' is a massive collection of pleadings intended to guide other lawyers through England’s courts.<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."</ref> Published in law French, the volume to some degree supplements [[Reports of Sir Edward Coke|Coke's ''Reports'']] because it contains the entire record of many cases in the latter set.<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 212.</ref>

==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), 10 (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> suggest Wythe owned the second edition (1671) of Coke's ''Book of Entries'' based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., ''The Papers of John Marshall'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:50.</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed their suggestions and purchased a copy of the 1671 edition.

[[File:CokeABookOfEntries1671Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|400px|<center>Headpiece, preface.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
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}}Rebound in buckram, rebacked in period style calf. Includes the bookplate of Geoffrey Hand on the front pastedown. Front flyleaf inscribed by several previous owners. Purchased from Meyer Boswell Books.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157660038854086 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21535052940003196 William & Mary's online catalog].

===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/CokeBookOfEntries1671.pdf ''Book of Entries''] (200MB PDF)
</div>

==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England|The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or, A Commentary upon Littleton]]''
*''[[Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England|The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning the Jurisdiction of the Courts]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*''[[Reports of Sir Edward Coke|The Reports of Sir Edward Coke]]''
*''[[Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England|The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient and Other Statutes]]''
*''[[Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England|The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

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

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[[Category:French]]
[[Category:Latin]]
[[Category:London]]

Reports of Sir Henry Yelverton

2019-08-13T17:44:35Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''The Reports of Sir Henry Yelverton ... of Divers Special Cases in the Court of King's Bench, as Well in the Latter Rnd of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, as in the First Ten Years of K. James''}}
===by Sir Henry Yelverton===
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}}[[wikipedia:Henry Yelverton (attorney-general)|Sir Henry Yelverton]] (1566 – 1630), judge and politician, was the eldest son of Sir [[wikipedia:Christopher Yelverton|Christopher Yelverton]], the noted judge and speaker of the House of Commons.<ref>S. R. Gardiner, rev. Louis A. Knafla, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30214?docPos=528317 Yelverton, Sir Henry (b. 1566, d. 1630)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed February 24, 2014.</ref>

According to one scholar, "genius, education, and public honor appear, indeed, to have been heirlooms in his family."<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 212.</ref> Yelverton's quick rise to prominence may be attributed to the public favor he received on account of his father’s good name.<ref>Ibid., 214</ref> In 1581, he matriculated from Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated from Peterhouse in 1584.<ref>"Yelverton, Sir Henry," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.</ref> Yelverton’s puritan leanings were informed by his time at Cambridge.<ref>Ibid.</ref> After gaining admittance to Gray’s Inn in 1580, he was called to bar in 1593.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Yelverton’s political activities began in 1597 when he was elected MP for Northhampton and sat on several committees.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Although not returned in 1601, he was in 1604 for the first parliament of James I.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In Parliament, he became known as an "independent man who spoke his mind."<ref>Ibid.</ref> It was Yelverton's outspokenness about the rights of parliament which tended to get him in trouble with the king, even though he supported the royal prerogative.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Despite the troublesome independence of his views, Yelverton regained the trust of King James I by gaining audience and explaining his views.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Ultimately this reconciliation enabled him to serve the King in various capacities.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1613, Yelverton was made solicitor-general and knighted, and he became attorney general after the king appointed Sir Francis Bacon Lord Keeper.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Despite his advancement to these positions of power, Yelverton's puritan independence caused him trouble.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The Duke of Buckingham, with whom Yelverton had an adversarial relationship, accused Yelverton of abusing his position as commissioner of patents.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Their animosity came to a head when Yelverton accused Buckingham of standing "still att the Kinges elbowe ready to hew me down."<ref>Ibid.</ref> For this, Yelverton was found guilty of slandering Buckingham, in addition to the underlying crime of impugning the king through his actions as commissioner of patents.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1621, Yelverton returned to the King’s Bench, Chancery, Star Chamber, and Assize circuits.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1625 he was made serjeant-at-law and became judge of the Court of Common Pleas, five years before he died.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Scholars hold Yelverton's ''Reports'' in high regard. Although they were never intended for publication, they are considered "among the best of the older books both for value of decision and essential accuracy of report." <ref>Wallace, ''The Reporters'', 211.</ref>

[[File:YelvertonReportsofSirHenryYelverton1735Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Previous owner's signature, front flyleaf.</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), 15 (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> suggest [[George Wythe|Wythe]] owned the third (1735) edition of Yelverton's ''Reports'' based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., ''The Papers of John Marshall'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:45.</ref> The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards with renewed endpapers. Includes early owner signature of "Miers Fischer" the front flyleaf and title page. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157657943286558 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21553504310003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ReportsOfSirHenryYelverton1735.pdf ''The Reports of Sir Henry Yelverton''] (17MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

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

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[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Henry Yelverton]]
[[Category:King's Bench Reports]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Greek]]
[[Category:London]]

General Abridgment of Law and Equity

2019-08-13T17:42:12Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles with Notes and References to the Whole''}}
===by Charles Viner===
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}}[[wikipedia:Charles Viner (jurist)|Charles Viner]] (bap. 1678, d. 1756) studied at Hart Hall, Oxford, but never completed his studies.<ref>David Ibbetson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28317 Viner, Charles (bap. 1678, d. 1756)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed November 21, 2013.</ref> He gained admission to the [[wikipedia:Middle Temple|Middle Temple]] in 1700.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Although never called to bar, Viner kept chambers at the King's Bench Walk, Temple where he gave occasional legal advice.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In his free time he enjoyed researching the literature of the law, and his ''Abridgment'' began as more of a hobby than a source of income. Viner based his work on Rolle's ''Abridgment'', but thought of it as more of a supplement to the uncompleted [[wikipedia:D'Anvers' Abridgment|D'Anvers's ''Abridgement'']].<ref>Percy H. Winfield, ''The Chief Sources of English Legal History'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925), 244.</ref> Thus, he started his work where D'Anvers left off: at the letter "F."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Viner's work took over half a century, resulting in twenty-three volumes.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Not only were the words his own, but he personally directed the manufacture of the paper that went into each volume.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Realizing the deficiencies in existing abridgements, he decided to complete the rest of the alphabet after finishing "F" through "Z."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Unsurprisingly, his independence angered established publishers and booksellers alike.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

The work was monumental, but a bit disorganized.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Completed in 1753, its twenty-three volumes contained a nearly complete composition of the legal materials available at the time.<ref>Ibid.</ref> But, with each volume containing approximately 550 pages, the material could be difficult to find.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It was not until 1758 that Robert Kelham's index provided the key to finding material quickly and accurately,<ref>Ibid.</ref> the index became so important that the second edition of Viner's ''Abridgment'' included it as a twenty-fourth volume.

Viner's final legacy, aside from his comprehensive work, came from his generosity to the University of Oxford.<ref>David Ibbetson, "Viner, Charles."</ref> Upon his death in 1756 he donated almost his entire estate to support the study of the common law.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It was his intention that others build upon the subject of his life’s work.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The first to hold the endowed Vinerian professorship was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone Sir William Blackstone].<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Viner's ''Abridgment'' is considered the most expansive common law work created by a single person.<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847) 711.</ref> Treatment of his work has varied in the 250 years since its creation. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Story Chief Justice Story], "[i]t is a cumbersome compilation, by no means accurate or complete in its citations, and difficult to use."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Others are more favorable: "When a question of Evidence. . . arises, fail not to search the. . . last edition of Viner's Abridgment"<ref>Ibid., 712</ref> Regardless of these opinions, it was an influential work cited by courts long after the author’s death.<ref>Percy H. Winfield, ''The Chief Sources of English Legal History'', 245.</ref>

[[File:VinersAbridgmentV5inscription.jpg|left|thumb|500px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf, volume five.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe definitely owned the first (1741-1753) edition of Viner's ''Abridgment''—a copy at the Library of Congress includes [[George Wythe's bookplate|his bookplate]] in each volume.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:222 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=236 [no.1791]].</ref> It is also listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Viner’s abr. F. to Y. inclus. 10.v. fol." under "[Commo]n law" in the section of books kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Two of the [[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 first edition "Viner's Abridgment." The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the same edition from another rare book collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period style with red title labels and black volume labels. Most volumes include a previous owner's signature on the front flyleaf and title page. Most are also stamped "Camden Co. Bar Assn." on the title page. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936. Set includes Robert Kelham's ''[https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21571348070003196 An Alphabetical Index to All the Abridgments of Law and Equity: and to Several Books of the Crown law, Conveyancing, and Practice, with Their Divisions and Subdivisions; Chiefly Calculated to Facilitate the References to the General Abridgment of Law and Equity, by Charles Viner, Esq]'' (London, In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lintot ... for the author, and sold by J. Worrall, 1758).

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157657639682578 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21555711030003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume eleven of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=mBc2AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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[[Category:Abridgments]]
[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Charles Viner]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Jefferson's Books]]
[[Category:Known Surviving Wythe Volumes]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[Category: Aldershot]]
[[Category:English]]
[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:For the Author, by Agreement with the Law-Patentees]]

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas

2019-08-13T17:41:17Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in the reigns of the late King William, Queen Anne, King George the First, and His Present Majesty''}}
===by Robert Raymond, Baron Raymond===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Raymond,_1st_Baron_Raymond Robert Raymond], Baron Raymond, (1673-1733) was a prominent lawyer, judge, and legal writer. His father helped young Robert gain entry to Gray’s Inn at the age of nine. Called to the bar in 1697, Raymond was retained by the crown as junior counsel in 1702, a great achievement for a lawyer so early in his career. In 1710, Raymond was named solicitor-general and was also electd Parliament. In 1720 he became attorney-general, and by this time had established a reputation as one of the leading barristers in Chancery and the House of Lords. Despite this success, his political career stalled out, due primarily to his affiliation with the Tories during the early part of his career.<ref>David Lemmings, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23207 Raymond, Robert, first Baron Raymond (1673–1733)]", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 6, 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
In 1724 Raymond retired from politics and became a judge in King’s Bench. By March of 1725 he had been made lord chief justice. His justiceship is remembered for producing learned and elaborate judgments, and Raymond had an influence on the laws of murder, manslaughter, and libel. Raymond had started authoring common-law reports in 1694, and continued to do so until within a year of his death in 1733.<ref>Ibid.</ref> <br />
<br />
''Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas'' was first published in London in 1743. It would eventually reach a fifth edition in 1832. It includes Raymond's case reports from 1694 to 1733. According to eighteenth century judge Lord Mansfield, the first part of the volume, consisting of mostly short notes for private use, is not particularly accurate. However, several other judges found Raymond’s notes to be dependably accurate. They further stated that even if the young Raymond failed to fully comprehend what he was recording, he could have easily fixed his errors over the rest of his long and successful career.<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Chronologically Arranged: With Occasional Remarks Upon Their Respective Merits'', 4th ed., rev. and enl. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 248-251.</ref><br />
<br />
Recent scholarship has revealed that at least some of the accusations of inaccuracy were well founded. For example, Raymond’s report of ''Ashby v. White'', a major case involving the right to vote and misfeasance of a public officer, was found to be highly misleading.<ref>Ted Sampsell-Jones, "The Myth of ''Ashby v. White''," ''University of St. Thomas Law Review'' (2010-2011): 40-59.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[File:RaymondReports1743V1Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Inscription, title page, volume one.</center>]]
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "L<sup>d</sup>. Raymond’s 2.v. fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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 May, 22, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1743 edition Baron Raymond's King's Bench and Common Pleas reports. The Wolf Law Library followed their suggestions and acquired a copy of the 1743 edition for the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period style with decorative gold bands and rules to spine. Title page of each volume signed "Tho. Staunton."

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157658664999035 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA21555664220003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Common Pleas Reports]]
[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:King's Bench Reports]]
[[Category:Robert Raymond]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:London]]

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas

2019-08-13T17:40:05Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in the reigns of the late King William, Queen Anne, King George the First, and His Present Majesty''}}
===by Robert Raymond, Baron Raymond===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Raymond,_1st_Baron_Raymond Robert Raymond], Baron Raymond, (1673-1733) was a prominent lawyer, judge, and legal writer. His father helped young Robert gain entry to Gray’s Inn at the age of nine. Called to the bar in 1697, Raymond was retained by the crown as junior counsel in 1702, a great achievement for a lawyer so early in his career. In 1710, Raymond was named solicitor-general and was also electd Parliament. In 1720 he became attorney-general, and by this time had established a reputation as one of the leading barristers in Chancery and the House of Lords. Despite this success, his political career stalled out, due primarily to his affiliation with the Tories during the early part of his career.<ref>David Lemmings, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23207 Raymond, Robert, first Baron Raymond (1673–1733)]", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 6, 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
In 1724 Raymond retired from politics and became a judge in King’s Bench. By March of 1725 he had been made lord chief justice. His justiceship is remembered for producing learned and elaborate judgments, and Raymond had an influence on the laws of murder, manslaughter, and libel. Raymond had started authoring common-law reports in 1694, and continued to do so until within a year of his death in 1733.<ref>Ibid.</ref> <br />
<br />
''Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas'' was first published in London in 1743. It would eventually reach a fifth edition in 1832. It includes Raymond's case reports from 1694 to 1733. According to eighteenth century judge Lord Mansfield, the first part of the volume, consisting of mostly short notes for private use, is not particularly accurate. However, several other judges found Raymond’s notes to be dependably accurate. They further stated that even if the young Raymond failed to fully comprehend what he was recording, he could have easily fixed his errors over the rest of his long and successful career.<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Chronologically Arranged: With Occasional Remarks Upon Their Respective Merits'', 4th ed., rev. and enl. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 248-251.</ref><br />
<br />
Recent scholarship has revealed that at least some of the accusations of inaccuracy were well founded. For example, Raymond’s report of ''Ashby v. White'', a major case involving the right to vote and misfeasance of a public officer, was found to be highly misleading.<ref>Ted Sampsell-Jones, "The Myth of ''Ashby v. White''," ''University of St. Thomas Law Review'' (2010-2011): 40-59.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[File:RaymondReports1743V1Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Inscription, title page, volume one.</center>]]
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "L<sup>d</sup>. Raymond’s 2.v. fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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 May, 22, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1743 edition Baron Raymond's King's Bench and Common Pleas reports. The Wolf Law Library followed their suggestions and acquired a copy of the 1743 edition for the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period style with decorative gold bands and rules to spine. Title page of each volume signed "Tho. Staunton."

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157658664999035 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/556797 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Common Pleas Reports]]
[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:King's Bench Reports]]
[[Category:Robert Raymond]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:London]]

M. Acci Plauti Comoediae

2019-08-13T17:38:51Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''M. Acci Plauti Comoediae''}}
===by Titus Maccius Plautus===
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}}[[File:PlautusAcciPlavtiComoediae1669Cover.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Embossed cover detail.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus] was a Roman comic playwright active between c.205 BCE and 184BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1746 "Plautus"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> He was said to have humble origins, which may help explain why his plays were targeted to entertain not just the Roman aristocracy. His are the oldest extant Roman works,<ref>Ibid.</ref> with 21 plays (20 complete and one remaining only in fragments) of 130 surviving.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-2423 "Plautus”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref>

Plautus freely and generously adapted Greek New Comedy, now lost, to represent and exaggerate Greek life and character. He combined Roman stereotypical views of Greeks with extensive word-play and over-the-top humor in his plays which utilized more song and recitation—about two-thirds of the total play composition—than most Roman plays, which contained mostly dialogue. In doing this, Plautus essentially wrote musical comedy.

Unfortunately, the work of Plautus is the only extant Latin language—in any form—that survives from the early second century BCE. During the Renaissance, Plautus was rediscovered, widely distributed and translated throughout Europe. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England Henry VIII] ordered the performance of two of his plays for the French ambassador in 1526, and Plautus’ influence can easily be seen throughout sixteenth-century English comedy. Shakespeare himself used the plot of the ''Menaechmi'' in ''The Comedy of Errors'' (1594).<ref>Ibid.</ref><br/>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "[Plautus] notis varior. 2.v. 8vo." This was one of the books kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. He later sold a copy to the Library of Congress in 1815, but it no longer exists to verify the edition or Wythe's prior ownership.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 4:547 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648125;view=1up;seq=567 (no.4571)].</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 February 27, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1669 edition of ''M. Acci Plauti Comoediae'' published in Leiden based on E. Millicent Sowerby's inclusion of that edition in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.
[[File:PlautusAcciPlavtiComoediae1669Inscriptions.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscriptions, front free endpaper.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary vellum with gilt tooling and gilt centerpieces showing stork and eel on front and back cover. Has fleur-de-lys tooling in corners and on spine. Front free endpaper includes Latin inscription and signatures. Purchased from Butigenus Bookcase.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637697760743 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA21545432570003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
<references/>
</div>

[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Jefferson's Books]]
[[Category:Johann Friedrich Gronovius]]
[[Category:Latin Literature]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]
[[Category:Titus Maccius Plautus]]

[[Category:Latin]]
[[Category:Leiden]]
[[Category:Octavos]]

Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV

2019-08-13T17:36:06Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV''}}
===by Ovid===
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|shorttitle=Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV
|author=[[:Category:Ovid|Ovid]]
|editor=[[:Category:Daniel Crispin|Daniel Crispin]]
|edition=In hac editione quinta fere notarum pars expungitur
|lang=[[:Category:Latin|Latin]]
|publoc=[[:Category:London|Londini]]
|publisher=Impensis S. Ballard, J. & P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman, D. Browne [and 13 others in London]
|year=1751
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}}[[File:OvidMetamorphoseon1751Inscriptions.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscriptions, front free endpaper.</center>]]Modern readers are fortunate that the Roman elegiac poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E. - 17/18 C.E.), better known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid Ovid], wrote of his own life in one of his poems, ''Tristia''.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-2187 "Ovid”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> He received a Roman education due to his family’s high social and political status as equestrians.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1578 "Ovid"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> As the culmination of his studies, Ovid went on the typical aristocratic “Grand Tour” of Greece.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Political life was not for him, so after Ovid held minor posts in Rome, he dedicated his life to poetry and became part of Messallian group of poets.<ref>"Ovid” in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.''</ref> By 8 CE, Ovid “was the leading poet of Rome” but was suddenly banished by the Emperor Augustus to the city Tomis due to a poem and an error which offended the emperor.<ref>"Ovid" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World''.</ref> During this ten-year ban, Ovid kept his Roman property and civic rights, but his books were removed from public libraries in Rome.<ref>"Ovid” in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature''.</ref>

''Metamorphoses'' contains a wide variety of memorable myths and legends, each telling of some type of supernatural transformation, “call[ing] attention to the boundaries between divine and human, animal and inanimate, raising fundamental questions about definition and hierarchy in the universe.”<ref>"Ovid" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World''.</ref> Ovid’s mastery of elegiac poetry was unsurpassed. “No Roman poet can equal Ovid’s impact upon western art and culture. Esp[ecially] remarkable in its appropriations has been the Metamorphoses.”<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Ovidii Metamorphoseon. Delph. 8vo." This was one of the books kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. He sold a copy to the Library of Congress in 1815, but it no longer exists to verify the edition or Wythe's prior ownership.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 4:449 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648125;view=1up;seq=469 (no.4339)].</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 February 28, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing merely indicates "Precise edition unknown." 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> includes the 1751 edition based on E. Millicent Sowerby's inclusion of that edition 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 original calf with gilt compartments to spine. Includes previous owner inscriptions "William Chadwick, 1759," "John Turner, His Book, Anno Domini 1783," and "Simeon Willoughby, His Book, Anno Domini 1784" on the front free endpaper. Purchased from Tony Hutchinson.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637697230706 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA21545458120003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:OvidMetamorphoseon1751Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|400px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]

==See also==
*''[[De Arte Amandi]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
View the record for this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=X-EIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

[[Category:Daniel Crispin]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Jefferson's Books]]
[[Category:Latin Literature]]
[[Category:Ovid]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Latin]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Octavos]]

Four Books of Justinian's Institutions

2019-08-13T17:33:37Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''D. Justiniani Institutionum Libri Quator, The Four Books of Justinian's Institutions''}}
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|shorttitle=The Four Books of Justinian's Institutions
|commontitle=Justinian's Institutes
|author=
|trans=[[:Category:George Harris|George Harris]]
|publoc=[[:Category:London|London]]
|publisher=Printed by J. Purser for M. Withers
|year=1761
|edition=Second
|lang=[[:Category:Latin|Latin]] and [[:Category:English|English]]
|pages=iv, 73, 121, 100, 92, [11], [4]
|desc=[[:Category:Quartos|4to]] (27 cm.)
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}}The ''Institutes'' of Justinian is one of the four parts of the ''[[Corpus Juris Civilis]]'', a comprehensive body of Roman Law.<ref>''The Columbia Encyclopedia,'' s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/columency/corpus_juris_civilis Corpus Juris Civilis]," accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> Created by order of Emperor Justinian under the guidance of his minister Tribonian, the work is the basis of modern civil law systems.<ref>''Justinian’s Institutes'', trans. with intro. by Peter Birks and Grant McLeod (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 8.</ref> The ''Institutes'' serves as an introduction to the law, a way for students unfamiliar with the law to build a legal framework by organizing the law into a three part scheme: the law of people, things, and actions. <ref>Ibid., 12-13.</ref> Unlike Justinian's ''Digest'', "each title appears to be a single, continuous essay."<ref>Ibid., 12.</ref> The emphasis is on avoidance of confusion, ease of use, and the development of basic knowledge necessary to analyze more complex portions of the law.<ref>Ibid., 15-16.</ref> In Justinian’s own words, it is a "cunabula legume" or cradle of the law.<ref>Ibid., 15.</ref>

[[File:DJustinianiInstitutionumLibriQuator1761Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|400px|<center>Illustration, dedication.</center>]]
Tribonian did not create the ''Institutes'' from scratch.<ref>Ibid., 12.</ref> Scholars posit that he polished and edited the drafts of two law professors in making the final version.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In addition, Tribonian relied heavily on older Roman law sources, especially the ''Institutes'' of Gaius.<ref>Ibid., 16.</ref>

This volume, ''D. Justiniani Institutionum Libri Quator, The Four Books of Justinian's Institutions,'' is a translation with commentary by George Harris (bap. 1721, d. 1796). Harris, a lawyer educated at Oriel College, Oxford, first published his version of the ''Institutes'' in 1756.<ref>T. A. B. Corley, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12386 Harris, George (bap. 1721, d. 1796)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed March 28, 2014.</ref> He intended his work to be "an introduction to [[Institutionum Imperialium Commentarius|Vinny's Edition]]."<ref>''The Four Books of Justinian's Institutions'', trans. with notes George Harris (London: 1756), viii.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "[H]arris's Justinian. 4to." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[James Dinsmore]]. 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> suggests either the first (1756) or the second (1761) edition, noting that Jefferson sold a copy of the latter to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:397 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=415 [no.2191]].</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. Editions with similar imprints were published at London in 1756 and 1761" and also mentions Jefferson's copy at the Library of Congress. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the second edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==

Bound in contemporary full calf, rebacked in period style. Title page signed "J. Wickham 1789." Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

This copy belonged to the notable Virginia jurist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wickham_%28attorney%29 John Wickham] (1763-1839), lead defense counsel in Aaron Burr's treason trial. Wickham studied law at the College of William & Mary and began practicing in Williamsburg in 1785. A longtime friend of John Marshall, Wickham was a loyalist during the Revolution.<ref>''Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography'', ed. Lyon Gardiner Tyler (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), 2:181-182.</ref>

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637448496426 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu:443/01COWM_WM:01COWM_WM_ALMA:01COWM_WM_ALMA21576817830003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==

*''[[Institutionum Imperialium Commentarius|''Arnoldi Vinnii JC. in Quatuor Libros Institutionum Imperialium Commentarius: Academicus & Forensis]]''
*''[[Codex Justinianus|Codex Justinianus ad Vetustorum Exemplarium Fidem Diligẽtissime Recognitus]]''
*''[[Corpus Juris Civilis]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==

*Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=uoNIAAAAYAAJ Google Books.]

__NOTOC__
[[Category:George Harris]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:James Dinsmore's Books]]
[[Category:Roman Law]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:English]]
[[Category:Latin]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Quartos]]

Homerou Odysseias

2019-08-13T17:30:24Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Της του Όμήρου Ίλιάδος ό τόμος πρότρος Δεγτερος''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
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|author=[[:Category:Homer|Homer]]
|editor=[[:Category:James Moor|James Moor]] and [[:Category:George Muirhead|George Muirhead]]
|publoc=[[:Category:Glasgow|Glasguae: ]]
|publisher=In aedibus Academicis, Excudebant R. et A. Foulis
|year=1758
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|shelf=N-5
}}{{BookPageBookplate
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}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Odyssey'' is an epic poem consisting of 24 books telling the story of the Trojan War hero Odysseus' ten-year journey trying to get home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus in Ithaca, where Odysseus is king. This epic is distinct from the ''Iliad'' in that it is a more romantic than heroic/tragic poem. It is clear in the ''Odyssey'' who the “good” and “bad” characters are, and therefore with whom the readers (or more accurately the listeners, as it was intended to be recited orally) should emphathize. Odysseus is shown through much of Greek mythological writing as intelligent and crafty. He tricked Achilles into agreeing to join the Greeks against the Trojans, and tricked the Trojans with the giant wooden horse that helped to end the war. In the ''Odyssey'', Odysseus' familial devotion and "eternal human quality[y] of resolution" contrast with the barbaric creatures he meets on his adventures, as well as with the suitors attempting to woo his wife.<ref>"Homer" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World''.</ref> Odysseus' humaneness served as a model to Greek men, just as Penelope’s devotion to her husband and home showed Greek women how to behave. The strong moral themes in the ''Odyssey'' in no way take away from the exciting adventures Odysseus encountered, from the Cyclopes to the Lotus Eaters to the Sirens, and to tricking and defeating Penelope’s suitors.<br/>
{{BookPageBookplate
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}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "[Homeri] Odysseus. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing list the 1758 Greek version of the ''Odyssey'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
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|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Roger Senhouse, front pastedown.
}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of a combined set with [[Homerou Iliados|Tēs tou Homērou Iliados]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://flic.kr/s/aHsjMM2Xih available on Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA21577673460003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homerou Iliados|Tēs tou Homērou Iliados]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Muirhead]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
[[Category:Homer]]
[[Category:James Moor]]
[[Category:John Wayles Eppes' Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]
[[Category:Greek]]

Homerou Iliados

2019-08-13T17:29:47Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Των του Ομηρου Σεσωμενων Απαντων ΤομοιΤεσσαρες''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
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}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Iliad'' is an epic poem of a heroic or tragic nature, consisting of 24 books, all of which are original except for Book Ten, which was likely added later.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1070 "Homer"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> It tells the tale of the wrath of Achilles during the last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The war began when Agamemnon led a unified force of Greek warriors across the Aegean Sea to attack Troy under the pretense of rescuing his sister-in-law, Helen (wife of Menelaus), from the Trojan prince Paris. Homer begins his narration in the tenth year of the war, covering several weeks during the war and focusing on the anger of Achilles at not being appropriately respected by Menelaus. Significantly described in the ''Iliad'' are the death of Patroclus (Achilles’ foster brother and alleged lover) and the subsequent vengeance killing of Hector (the oldest son of King Priam of Troy). The respect and compassion between supposed enemies Achilles and Priam when the former returns Hector’s body from the Danaan camp is an example of the humanity Greeks expected to be shown to one another even during war. The story ends with the funeral of Hector. Homer does not address the death of Achilles, the Trojan Horse or the fall of Troy. All of those stories come to us from the Latin poet Virgil’s epic, ''The Aeneid''.
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=StracheyBookplatefromHomer.jpg
|display=left
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}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Ilias. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing include the 1756 Greek version of the ''Iliad'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=SenhouseBookplateFromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Roger Senhouse, front pastedown.
}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of combined set with [[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://flic.kr/s/aHsjMM2Xih available on Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA21577673460003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Muirhead]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
[[Category:Homer]]
[[Category:James Moor]]
[[Category:John Wayles Eppes' Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]
[[Category:Greek]]

Homerou Odysseias

2019-08-13T17:28:44Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Της του Όμήρου Ίλιάδος ό τόμος πρότρος Δεγτερος''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
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}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Odyssey'' is an epic poem consisting of 24 books telling the story of the Trojan War hero Odysseus' ten-year journey trying to get home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus in Ithaca, where Odysseus is king. This epic is distinct from the ''Iliad'' in that it is a more romantic than heroic/tragic poem. It is clear in the ''Odyssey'' who the “good” and “bad” characters are, and therefore with whom the readers (or more accurately the listeners, as it was intended to be recited orally) should emphathize. Odysseus is shown through much of Greek mythological writing as intelligent and crafty. He tricked Achilles into agreeing to join the Greeks against the Trojans, and tricked the Trojans with the giant wooden horse that helped to end the war. In the ''Odyssey'', Odysseus' familial devotion and "eternal human quality[y] of resolution" contrast with the barbaric creatures he meets on his adventures, as well as with the suitors attempting to woo his wife.<ref>"Homer" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World''.</ref> Odysseus' humaneness served as a model to Greek men, just as Penelope’s devotion to her husband and home showed Greek women how to behave. The strong moral themes in the ''Odyssey'' in no way take away from the exciting adventures Odysseus encountered, from the Cyclopes to the Lotus Eaters to the Sirens, and to tricking and defeating Penelope’s suitors.<br/>
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=StracheyBookplatefromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Lytton Strachey, front pastedown.
}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "[Homeri] Odysseus. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing list the 1758 Greek version of the ''Odyssey'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=SenhouseBookplateFromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Roger Senhouse, front pastedown.
}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of a combined set with [[Homerou Iliados|Tēs tou Homērou Iliados]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on [https://flic.kr/s/aHsjMM2Xih Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA21577673460003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homerou Iliados|Tēs tou Homērou Iliados]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Muirhead]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
[[Category:Homer]]
[[Category:James Moor]]
[[Category:John Wayles Eppes' Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]
[[Category:Greek]]

Homerou Iliados

2019-08-13T17:27:57Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Των του Ομηρου Σεσωμενων Απαντων ΤομοιΤεσσαρες''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
{{BookPageInfoBox
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|shorttitle=Tēs tou Homērou Iliados
|author=[[:Category:Homer|Homer]]
|editor=[[:Category:James Moor|James Moor]] and [[:Category:George Muirhead|George Muirhead]]
|publoc=[[:Category:Glasgow|Glasguae: ]]
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}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Iliad'' is an epic poem of a heroic or tragic nature, consisting of 24 books, all of which are original except for Book Ten, which was likely added later.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1070 "Homer"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> It tells the tale of the wrath of Achilles during the last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The war began when Agamemnon led a unified force of Greek warriors across the Aegean Sea to attack Troy under the pretense of rescuing his sister-in-law, Helen (wife of Menelaus), from the Trojan prince Paris. Homer begins his narration in the tenth year of the war, covering several weeks during the war and focusing on the anger of Achilles at not being appropriately respected by Menelaus. Significantly described in the ''Iliad'' are the death of Patroclus (Achilles’ foster brother and alleged lover) and the subsequent vengeance killing of Hector (the oldest son of King Priam of Troy). The respect and compassion between supposed enemies Achilles and Priam when the former returns Hector’s body from the Danaan camp is an example of the humanity Greeks expected to be shown to one another even during war. The story ends with the funeral of Hector. Homer does not address the death of Achilles, the Trojan Horse or the fall of Troy. All of those stories come to us from the Latin poet Virgil’s epic, ''The Aeneid''.
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=StracheyBookplatefromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Lytton Strachey, front pastedown.
}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Ilias. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing include the 1756 Greek version of the ''Iliad'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=SenhouseBookplateFromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Roger Senhouse, front pastedown.
}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of combined set with [[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on [https://flic.kr/s/aHsjMM2Xih Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA21577673460003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Muirhead]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
[[Category:Homer]]
[[Category:James Moor]]
[[Category:John Wayles Eppes' Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]
[[Category:Greek]]

Homerou Odysseias

2019-08-13T17:27:20Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Της του Όμήρου Ίλιάδος ό τόμος πρότρος Δεγτερος''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
{{BookPageInfoBox
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|link=https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3633464
|shorttitle=Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias
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|editor=[[:Category:James Moor|James Moor]] and [[:Category:George Muirhead|George Muirhead]]
|publoc=[[:Category:Glasgow|Glasguae: ]]
|publisher=In aedibus Academicis, Excudebant R. et A. Foulis
|year=1758
|lang=[[:Category:Greek|Greek]]
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|shelf=N-5
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|display=left
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}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Odyssey'' is an epic poem consisting of 24 books telling the story of the Trojan War hero Odysseus' ten-year journey trying to get home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus in Ithaca, where Odysseus is king. This epic is distinct from the ''Iliad'' in that it is a more romantic than heroic/tragic poem. It is clear in the ''Odyssey'' who the “good” and “bad” characters are, and therefore with whom the readers (or more accurately the listeners, as it was intended to be recited orally) should emphathize. Odysseus is shown through much of Greek mythological writing as intelligent and crafty. He tricked Achilles into agreeing to join the Greeks against the Trojans, and tricked the Trojans with the giant wooden horse that helped to end the war. In the ''Odyssey'', Odysseus' familial devotion and "eternal human quality[y] of resolution" contrast with the barbaric creatures he meets on his adventures, as well as with the suitors attempting to woo his wife.<ref>"Homer" in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World''.</ref> Odysseus' humaneness served as a model to Greek men, just as Penelope’s devotion to her husband and home showed Greek women how to behave. The strong moral themes in the ''Odyssey'' in no way take away from the exciting adventures Odysseus encountered, from the Cyclopes to the Lotus Eaters to the Sirens, and to tricking and defeating Penelope’s suitors.<br/>
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=StracheyBookplatefromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Lytton Strachey, front pastedown.
}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "[Homeri] Odysseus. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing list the 1758 Greek version of the ''Odyssey'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=SenhouseBookplateFromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Roger Senhouse, front pastedown.
}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of a combined set with [[Homerou Iliados|Tēs tou Homērou Iliados]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on [https://flic.kr/s/aHsjMM2Xih Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01COWM_WM_ALMA21577673460003196&vid=01COWM_WM_NEWUI&search_scope=EVERYTHING&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&context=L| William & Mary's online catalog.]

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homerou Iliados|Tēs tou Homērou Iliados]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Muirhead]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
[[Category:Homer]]
[[Category:James Moor]]
[[Category:John Wayles Eppes' Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]
[[Category:Greek]]

Homerou Iliados

2019-08-13T17:26:22Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Των του Ομηρου Σεσωμενων Απαντων ΤομοιΤεσσαρες''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
{{BookPageInfoBox
|imagename=Tēs tou Homērou Iliados.jpg
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|shorttitle=Tēs tou Homērou Iliados
|author=[[:Category:Homer|Homer]]
|editor=[[:Category:James Moor|James Moor]] and [[:Category:George Muirhead|George Muirhead]]
|publoc=[[:Category:Glasgow|Glasguae: ]]
|publisher=In aedibus Academicis, Excudebant R. et A. Foulis
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|shelf=N-5
}}{{BookPageBookplate
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|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of William Danby, front pastedown.
}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Iliad'' is an epic poem of a heroic or tragic nature, consisting of 24 books, all of which are original except for Book Ten, which was likely added later.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1070 "Homer"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> It tells the tale of the wrath of Achilles during the last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The war began when Agamemnon led a unified force of Greek warriors across the Aegean Sea to attack Troy under the pretense of rescuing his sister-in-law, Helen (wife of Menelaus), from the Trojan prince Paris. Homer begins his narration in the tenth year of the war, covering several weeks during the war and focusing on the anger of Achilles at not being appropriately respected by Menelaus. Significantly described in the ''Iliad'' are the death of Patroclus (Achilles’ foster brother and alleged lover) and the subsequent vengeance killing of Hector (the oldest son of King Priam of Troy). The respect and compassion between supposed enemies Achilles and Priam when the former returns Hector’s body from the Danaan camp is an example of the humanity Greeks expected to be shown to one another even during war. The story ends with the funeral of Hector. Homer does not address the death of Achilles, the Trojan Horse or the fall of Troy. All of those stories come to us from the Latin poet Virgil’s epic, ''The Aeneid''.
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=StracheyBookplatefromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Lytton Strachey, front pastedown.
}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Ilias. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing include the 1756 Greek version of the ''Iliad'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=SenhouseBookplateFromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Roger Senhouse, front pastedown.
}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of combined set with [[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on [https://flic.kr/s/aHsjMM2Xih Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01COWM_WM_ALMA21577673460003196&vid=01COWM_WM_NEWUI&search_scope=EVERYTHING&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&context=L| William & Mary's online catalog.]

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Muirhead]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
[[Category:Homer]]
[[Category:James Moor]]
[[Category:John Wayles Eppes' Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]
[[Category:Greek]]

Homerou Iliados

2019-08-13T17:24:14Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Των του Ομηρου Σεσωμενων Απαντων ΤομοιΤεσσαρες''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
{{BookPageInfoBox
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|shorttitle=Tēs tou Homērou Iliados
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|editor=[[:Category:James Moor|James Moor]] and [[:Category:George Muirhead|George Muirhead]]
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}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Iliad'' is an epic poem of a heroic or tragic nature, consisting of 24 books, all of which are original except for Book Ten, which was likely added later.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1070 "Homer"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> It tells the tale of the wrath of Achilles during the last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The war began when Agamemnon led a unified force of Greek warriors across the Aegean Sea to attack Troy under the pretense of rescuing his sister-in-law, Helen (wife of Menelaus), from the Trojan prince Paris. Homer begins his narration in the tenth year of the war, covering several weeks during the war and focusing on the anger of Achilles at not being appropriately respected by Menelaus. Significantly described in the ''Iliad'' are the death of Patroclus (Achilles’ foster brother and alleged lover) and the subsequent vengeance killing of Hector (the oldest son of King Priam of Troy). The respect and compassion between supposed enemies Achilles and Priam when the former returns Hector’s body from the Danaan camp is an example of the humanity Greeks expected to be shown to one another even during war. The story ends with the funeral of Hector. Homer does not address the death of Achilles, the Trojan Horse or the fall of Troy. All of those stories come to us from the Latin poet Virgil’s epic, ''The Aeneid''.
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=StracheyBookplatefromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Lytton Strachey, front pastedown.
}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Ilias. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing include the 1756 Greek version of the ''Iliad'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=SenhouseBookplateFromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Roger Senhouse, front pastedown.
}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of combined set with [[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on [https://flic.kr/s/aHsjMM2Xih| Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01COWM_WM_ALMA21577673460003196&vid=01COWM_WM_NEWUI&search_scope=EVERYTHING&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&context=L| William & Mary's online catalog.]

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Muirhead]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
[[Category:Homer]]
[[Category:James Moor]]
[[Category:John Wayles Eppes' Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]
[[Category:Greek]]

Homerou Iliados

2019-08-13T17:22:23Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Των του Ομηρου Σεσωμενων Απαντων ΤομοιΤεσσαρες''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
{{BookPageInfoBox
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|shorttitle=Tēs tou Homērou Iliados
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|editor=[[:Category:James Moor|James Moor]] and [[:Category:George Muirhead|George Muirhead]]
|publoc=[[:Category:Glasgow|Glasguae: ]]
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}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Iliad'' is an epic poem of a heroic or tragic nature, consisting of 24 books, all of which are original except for Book Ten, which was likely added later.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1070 "Homer"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> It tells the tale of the wrath of Achilles during the last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The war began when Agamemnon led a unified force of Greek warriors across the Aegean Sea to attack Troy under the pretense of rescuing his sister-in-law, Helen (wife of Menelaus), from the Trojan prince Paris. Homer begins his narration in the tenth year of the war, covering several weeks during the war and focusing on the anger of Achilles at not being appropriately respected by Menelaus. Significantly described in the ''Iliad'' are the death of Patroclus (Achilles’ foster brother and alleged lover) and the subsequent vengeance killing of Hector (the oldest son of King Priam of Troy). The respect and compassion between supposed enemies Achilles and Priam when the former returns Hector’s body from the Danaan camp is an example of the humanity Greeks expected to be shown to one another even during war. The story ends with the funeral of Hector. Homer does not address the death of Achilles, the Trojan Horse or the fall of Troy. All of those stories come to us from the Latin poet Virgil’s epic, ''The Aeneid''.
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=StracheyBookplatefromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Lytton Strachey, front pastedown.
}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Ilias. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing include the 1756 Greek version of the ''Iliad'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=SenhouseBookplateFromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Roger Senhouse, front pastedown.
}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of combined set with [[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637877743166| Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01COWM_WM_ALMA21577673460003196&vid=01COWM_WM_NEWUI&search_scope=EVERYTHING&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&context=L| William & Mary's online catalog.]

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Muirhead]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
[[Category:Homer]]
[[Category:James Moor]]
[[Category:John Wayles Eppes' Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]
[[Category:Greek]]

Homerou Iliados

2019-08-13T17:21:30Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Των του Ομηρου Σεσωμενων Απαντων ΤομοιΤεσσαρες''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
{{BookPageInfoBox
|imagename=Tēs tou Homērou Iliados.jpg
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|shorttitle=Tēs tou Homērou Iliados
|author=[[:Category:Homer|Homer]]
|editor=[[:Category:James Moor|James Moor]] and [[:Category:George Muirhead|George Muirhead]]
|publoc=[[:Category:Glasgow|Glasguae: ]]
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|year=1756
|lang=[[:Category:Greek|Greek]]
|set=2 volumes in 1
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|shelf=N-5
}}{{BookPageBookplate
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|display=left
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}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Iliad'' is an epic poem of a heroic or tragic nature, consisting of 24 books, all of which are original except for Book Ten, which was likely added later.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1070 "Homer"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> It tells the tale of the wrath of Achilles during the last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The war began when Agamemnon led a unified force of Greek warriors across the Aegean Sea to attack Troy under the pretense of rescuing his sister-in-law, Helen (wife of Menelaus), from the Trojan prince Paris. Homer begins his narration in the tenth year of the war, covering several weeks during the war and focusing on the anger of Achilles at not being appropriately respected by Menelaus. Significantly described in the ''Iliad'' are the death of Patroclus (Achilles’ foster brother and alleged lover) and the subsequent vengeance killing of Hector (the oldest son of King Priam of Troy). The respect and compassion between supposed enemies Achilles and Priam when the former returns Hector’s body from the Danaan camp is an example of the humanity Greeks expected to be shown to one another even during war. The story ends with the funeral of Hector. Homer does not address the death of Achilles, the Trojan Horse or the fall of Troy. All of those stories come to us from the Latin poet Virgil’s epic, ''The Aeneid''.
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=StracheyBookplatefromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Lytton Strachey, front pastedown.
}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Ilias. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing include the 1756 Greek version of the ''Iliad'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=SenhouseBookplateFromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of Roger Senhouse, front pastedown.
}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of combined set with [[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637877743166| Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA21577673460003196| William & Mary's online catalog.]

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
</div>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:George Muirhead]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
[[Category:Homer]]
[[Category:James Moor]]
[[Category:John Wayles Eppes' Books]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

[[Category:Folios]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]
[[Category:Greek]]

Homerou Iliados

2019-08-13T17:19:54Z

Mvanwicklin:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Των του Ομηρου Σεσωμενων Απαντων ΤομοιΤεσσαρες''}}
===by Homer===
__NOTOC__
{{BookPageInfoBox
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|shorttitle=Tēs tou Homērou Iliados
|author=[[:Category:Homer|Homer]]
|editor=[[:Category:James Moor|James Moor]] and [[:Category:George Muirhead|George Muirhead]]
|publoc=[[:Category:Glasgow|Glasguae: ]]
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|shelf=N-5
}}{{BookPageBookplate
|imagename=DanbyBookplatefromHomer.jpg
|display=left
|caption=Bookplate of William Danby, front pastedown.
}}Little is known about the life of Homer, the poet responsible for the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. Herodotus claimed Homer lived around 850 BCE, while modern scholars usually date his poems to the second half of the eighth century BCE.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1550 "Homer”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> The Trojan War is estimated to have occurred at the end of the Mycenaean Age in Greece, around 1200 BCE, meaning that Homer was looking back four centuries to a heroic world much greater in his esteem, than the contemporary world. Homer relied on oral history to compose his poems; this provides some of the basis for the "separatist" view that the two epic poems were not written by the same person, but possibly by a combination of poets. The mixed dialect of Ionian Greek in which each poem was originally written indicates that both poems were written in the east Aegean. This is supported by contextual clues in the poems themselves. The two most plausible locations for the birth of Homer are Smyrna and Chios, but ancient Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
<br/>
Homer’s ''Iliad'' is an epic poem of a heroic or tragic nature, consisting of 24 books, all of which are original except for Book Ten, which was likely added later.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1070 "Homer"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> It tells the tale of the wrath of Achilles during the last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The war began when Agamemnon led a unified force of Greek warriors across the Aegean Sea to attack Troy under the pretense of rescuing his sister-in-law, Helen (wife of Menelaus), from the Trojan prince Paris. Homer begins his narration in the tenth year of the war, covering several weeks during the war and focusing on the anger of Achilles at not being appropriately respected by Menelaus. Significantly described in the ''Iliad'' are the death of Patroclus (Achilles’ foster brother and alleged lover) and the subsequent vengeance killing of Hector (the oldest son of King Priam of Troy). The respect and compassion between supposed enemies Achilles and Priam when the former returns Hector’s body from the Danaan camp is an example of the humanity Greeks expected to be shown to one another even during war. The story ends with the funeral of Hector. Homer does not address the death of Achilles, the Trojan Horse or the fall of Troy. All of those stories come to us from the Latin poet Virgil’s epic, ''The Aeneid''.
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}}==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Ilias. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. 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. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 27, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing include the 1756 Greek version of the ''Iliad'' published by the Foulis Press. The Wolf Law Library purchased the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
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}}Bound in contemporary full diced brown calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compartments. The edges are gilt-rolled. Includes the bookplates of William Danby, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Senhouse on the front pastedown. Signature "W Danby, Chris. Coll. 1772" on front flyleaf. Part of combined set with [[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]. Purchased from David Brass.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637877743166| Flickr]. View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

[[File:DanbySignaturefromHomer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==See also==
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*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn|Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis Autas Scholia, ē Exēgēsis, tōn Palaiōn = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in Easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]''
*''[[Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus|Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae]]''
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
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