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Orphan's Legacy

2014-05-02T19:43:09Z

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<big>''The Orphan's Legacy: or, A Testamentary Abridgment: In Three Parts. I. Of Last Wills and testaments. II. Of executors and Administrators. III. Of Legacies and Devises. Wherein the Most Material Points of Law Relating to that Subject, are Succintly Treated, as well According to the Common and Temporal, as Ecclesiastical and Civil Laws of this Realm''</big>
===by John Godolphin===
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|author=John Godolphin
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, esquires, for Robert Vincent
|year=1701
|edition=Fourth ed. much augm. and enl.
|lang=English
|pages=4, 478 (i. e. 476), [20]
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Godolphin John Godolphin] (1617-1678), a civil lawyer, was born to a prominent Cornish family in 1617 and matriculated from Gloucester Hall, Oxford, in 1632.<ref>Jeffrey R. Collins, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/10879 Godolphin, John (1617–1678)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed April 23, 2013.</ref> After graduating with a BA (1635) and BCL (1636), Godolphin was admitted to the faculty with the degree of doctor of civil law. It is said that Godolphin’s works were “puritannically inclined,”<ref>Anthony Wood believed Godolphin’s works were promoted because of Godolphin’s Puritan intentions. (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 3.1152).</ref> which makes sense given that he published both theological works and legal works. 
 
Godolphin was appointed as a judge of the admiralty court by Parliament in 1653, and was re-appointed in 1659. After the Restoration, he continued to practice law privately. Godolphin became known as an advocate of the civil law, making many contributions to the understanding of the law through his writings. ''The Orphan's Legacy'', published in 1674, made a profound contribution to the law of wills. 
 
"The first really able books upon ecclesiastical law as a whole were written by Godolphin in the latter half of the seventeenth century. (...) [one of them is his] ''Orphan's Legacy'' [which deals with the subject] from the point of view not only of the ecclesiastical law, but also of the common law, and of the rising jurisdiction of the Chancellor."<ref>Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', V:12; Sweet & Maxwell, ''Bibliography of the British Commonwealth'' 1:492 (13).</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), 11 (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 fourth (1701) edition of John Godolphin's ''The Orphan's Legacy'' based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>''The Papers of John Marshall,'' eds. Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:43.</ref> Brown also notes that Wythe cited ''The Orphan's Legacy'' in his arguments for ''[[Bolling v. Bolling]]'', "Obj. Godolph. 281. 'If a man, by will, says, my will, pleasure or desire is that he shall have, or receive, or keep, or retain, these, or the like words, are sufficient to create a good bequest."<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), 317-318.</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed the suggestions of Brown and Dean, and purchased a copy of the 1701 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in early nineteenth-century three-quarter calf over marbled boards with raised bands and a lettering piece to the spine. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/2497872 William & Mary's online catalog.]
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Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills

2014-05-02T19:41:46Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills''}}
<big>The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills, to Which is Added, Choice Precedents of Wills</big>
===by Sir Geoffrey Gilbert===
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|author=Sir Geoffrey Gilbert
|publoc=In the Savoy
|publisher=Printed by H. Lintot, for T. Waller
|year=1756
|edition=First
|lang=English
|pages=viii, [11], 254, [38]
|desc=8vo (21 cm.)
}}[[File:GilbertLawOfDevisesRevocationsAndLastWills1756InscriptionFPD.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Previous owner's inscription, front pastedown.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Gilbert_(judge) Sir Geoffrey (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> 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|300px|<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. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3267498 William & Mary's online catalog.]
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Blackstone's Commentaries

2014-05-02T19:39:17Z

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<big>''Blackstone's Commentaries: with Notes of Reference, to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States; and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Five Volumes with an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connected view of the Laws of Virginia, as a Member of the Federal Union''</big> 
===by St. George Tucker===
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|vol=volume one
|author=William Blackstone
|publoc=Philadelphia
|publisher=Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-street, Robert Carr, printer
|year=1803
|lang=English
|set=4 volumes in 5
|desc=8vo (22 cm.)
}}[[File:TuckerBlackstonesCommentary1803V2Table.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Table of Descents in Parentage in Virginia, plate IV, volume two.</center>]][[St. George Tucker]] (1752–1827) was a Virginia jurist and former student of George Wythe.<ref>The description of Tucker's ''Blackstone'' derives from the Wikipedia entry for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George_Tucker St. George Tucker] that Fred Dingledy (of William & Mary's Wolf Law Library) edited and refined.</ref> When he succeeded Wythe as the second [[Professor of Law and Police]] at the College of William & Mary, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George_Tucker Tucker] used [[Commentaries on the Laws of England|William Blackstone's ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'']] as his primary text.<ref>Paul Finkelman and David Cobin, "An Introduction to St. George Tucker's Blackstone's Commentaries," in St. George Tucker, ''Blackstone's Commentaries'' (1803; repr., Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 1996), 1:x.</ref> Although Tucker considered ''Blackstone'' the best treatise to use for learning the common law, he thought it had weaknesses as a teaching tool for American law.<ref>Ibid. </ref> None of the editions of ''Blackstone'' published in the United States actually discussed new legal developments there; they just reprinted Blackstone's discussions of English law.<ref>Ibid., 1:i.</ref> Tucker also felt that Blackstone's sympathy with the power of the Crown over that of Parliament would be a poor influence for American students.<ref>Davison M. Douglas, "[http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol47/iss4/2/ Foreword: The Legacy of St. George Tucker]," 47 ''William and Mary Law Review'' (2006), 1113.</ref> To address these deficiencies, Tucker wrote [[marginalia]] in his copy of ''Blackstone'' and read the notes to his classes. He also added lectures on the law of Virginia and the United States, comparing the American political system with its British counterpart.<ref> Charles T. Cullen, ''St. George Tucker and Law in Virginia, 1772-1804'' (New York: Garland Publishing, 1987), 121,123-126.</ref> 
 
In 1795, at the urging of several friends (including former Virginia governor John Page), Tucker began investigating publishing his written works, including an edition of ''Blackstone'' with his notes and lectures from William & Mary added as appendixes.<ref>Ibid., 157.</ref> After initial unsuccessful attempts to find a printer, Tucker reached an agreement with the Philadelphia firm of Birch and Small, which paid Tucker $4000 for the book's copyright.<ref>Ibid., 157-160.</ref> Tucker's ''Blackstone'' was organized into five volumes. Each volume would begin with Blackstone's original text, with notes from Tucker added, followed by an appendix containing Tucker's lectures and writings on particular subjects.<ref>Ibid., 161. </ref> Blackstone's text was mostly arranged the same way as in the original version, but Tucker organized the appendixes to show what he felt were the most important developments in American law.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Tucker's ''Blackstone'' sold well from the beginning,<ref> Cullen, ''St. George Tucker and Law in Virginia'', 160-161.</ref> and it quickly became the major treatise on American law in the early 19th century.<ref>Douglas, "Legacy of St. George Tucker," 1114.</ref> Law reporter Daniel Call described it as "necessary to every student and practitioner of law in Virginia".<ref>8 Va. (4 Call) xxviii (1833)</ref> Lawyers arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court would frequently cite to Tucker's ''Blackstone''—more often than any other commentator until 1827, the year after the publication of James Kent's ''Commentaries on American Law''.<ref> Cullen, ''St. George Tucker and Law in Virginia,'' 162-163.</ref> The United States Supreme Court cited Tucker's ''Blackstone'' frequently, referring to it in over forty cases.<ref>Finkelman and Cobin, "An Introduction to St. George Tucker's Blackstone's Commentaries," 1:v-vi.</ref> Modern lawyers, legal scholars, and judges still refer to Tucker's ''Blackstone'' to determine how Americans understood both English and American law in the early days of the republic.<ref>Ibid., 1:i-ii, v-vi.</ref>
[[File:TuckerBlackstonesCommentary1803V3Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Inscription and bookseller's embossed stamp, front free endpaper, volume three.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Tucker’s Blackstone 5.v. 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "Tucker's Blackstone (3 odd vols.)' (3 vols., $3.00 value)." Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 18, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> include ''Tucker's Blackstone''. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the first edition.

==Description of The Wolf Law Library's Copy==
Bound in contemporary calf and rebacked in matching period style, retaining the original red and black morocco gilt-lettered spine labels. Gilt ruling decorates the spine. Contains marginalia throughout the volumes. Each title page embossed with the stamp of the Sondley Reference Library, "Sondley Library, Asheville, NC." Each front free endpaper has the signature of the well-known North Carolina author, lawyer, and historian "F.A. Sondley, Asheville, N.C., Sept. 28, 1887" and the embossed stamp of "Randolph & English, Booksellers, 1502 Main St., Richmond VA." Most volumes signed "Wm. Green, 1834" on a preliminary page; volume three signed "William Green, 1834." Volume three also signed "John W. Green" on the title page. The upper margin of the first volume's title page states, "Commenced the study of Law, the night of the 22nd March 1848." Purchased from David Lesser.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/88119 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:TuckerBlackstonesCommentary1803V4Marginalia.jpg|right|thumb|350px|<center>Marginalia, page 230, volume four.</center>]]

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New Virginia Justice

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<big>''The New Virginia Justice, Comprising the Office and Authority of a Justice of The Peace, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Together with a Variety of Useful Precedents Adopted [!] to the Laws Now in Force to Which is Added, an Appendix Containing All the Most Approved Forms of Conveyancing, Commonly Used in this Country ... Also the Duties of a Justice of the Peace Arising under the Laws of the United States''</big>
===by William Waller Hening===
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|shorttitle=The New Virginia Justice
|author=William Waller Hening
|publoc=Richmond
|publisher=Printed by T. Nicolson
|year=1795
|lang=English
|pages=8, 456, [11], xxiv, 32
|desc=8vo (21 cm.)
}}William Waller Hening (1767-1828), a Virginia lawyer, legal editor, and representative to the Virginia House of Delegates, was born in Fredericksburg, Culpeper County, Virginia in 1767. After [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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> 
[[File:HeningNewVirginiaJustice1795Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Inscription, front pastedown.</center>]]
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 Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia'' (1810), ''The American Pleader and Lawyer's Guide'' (1811), and ''Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia'' (1819). During this time he also 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]].
[[File:HeningNewVirginiaJustice1795Inscription2.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Inscription, front free endpaper.</center>]]
==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.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/2084548 William & Mary's online catalog].

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Theophilou Antikēnsōros ta Heuriskomena

2014-05-02T19:34:36Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Theophilou Antikēnsōros ta Heuriskomena''}}
<big>''Theophilou Antikēnsōros ta Heuriskomena: Theophili Antecessoris Paraphrasis Graeca Institutionum Caesarearum''</big>
===by Theophilus===
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|shorttitle=Theophilou Antikēnsōros ta Heuriskomena
|author=Theophilus
|trans=Wilhelm Otto Reitz
|lang=Greek and Latin
|publoc=Hague Comitis
|publisher=apud fratres Ottonem et Petrum Thollios
|year=1751
|set=2 volumes in 1
|desc=4to (26 cm.)
}}[[File:TheophilousTheophiliAntecessorisParaphrasisGraeca1751Dedication.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Royal arms of Prince William IV of Orange, dedication page.</center>]]
This is the Latin version of Justinian's ''Institutes'' with Theophilus' "rather longer" Greek paraphrase.<ref>''Justinian’s Institutes'', trans. with intro. by Peter Birks and Grant McLeod (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 12.</ref> One of the works in ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', the ''Institutes'' was part of the Emperor Justinian's "revised system of legal education."<ref>Ibid.</ref> It was intended as a "book for beginners" that organizes and summarizes the entries in the ''Digest''—another part of ''Corpus Juris Civilis'' that preserved the writings of classical jurists.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Two law professors and members of the commission that created the ''Digest'', Theophilus of Constantinople and Dorotheus from Beirut, were chosen to edit and compile the four books of the ''Institutes'' with Justinian’s chancellor, Tribonian, acting as final editor.<ref>''The Institutiones'', trans. George Harris (Harvard University: W. Green and T. Chaplin, 1814), xii.</ref> Although all ancient law was utilized, most of the content came from "the commentaries, institutions, and other writings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_%28jurist%29 Gaius]."<ref>Ibid.</ref> "Tribonian and the two professors also drew on ''Institutes'' written by Marcian, Florentinus, Ulpian, and Paul."<ref>''Justinian’s Institutes'', 12.</ref> Dividing the work, Tribonian apparently assigned the first half to Dorotheus, the second to Theophilus. Unlike the ''Digest'' which was composed of "a patchwork of extracts"<ref>Ibid.</ref>, the ''Institutes'' is dominated by essays that "achieve a bird's eye view of the law."<ref>Ibid., 13.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe ordered "the Works of Theophilus in greek and latin, two volumes in quarto, published at the Hague in 1751, by Gul. Otto Reitz." from London merchant John Norton in a [[Wythe to John Norton, 29 May 1772|letter]] dated May 29, 1772. Records indicate the order was fulfilled.<ref>Frances Norton Mason, ed., ''John Norton & Sons, Merchants of London and Virginia: Being the Papers from their Counting House for the Years 1750 to 1795'' (Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Press, 1937), 242-243. The letter is endorsed "Virga. 29 May 1772 / George Wythe / Recd. 21 September / Goods Entr. pa. 163/ Ans. the March 1773."</ref> All four of the [[George Wythe Collection|Wythe Collection]] sources (Goodwin's pamphlet<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings''] (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), LIII.</ref>, [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 8 (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 March 20, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing) list the 1751 edition of ''Theophilou Antikēnsōros ta Heuriskomena''. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.
[[File:TheophilousTheophiliAntecessorisParaphrasisGraeca1751Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Illustration opposite page 571.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary Dutch gilt prize vellum with stamped decorations to spine and covers.

Find this work in the [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/3719560 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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Four Books of Justinian's Institutions

2014-05-02T19:34:06Z

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<big>''D. Justiniani Institutionum Libri Quator, The Four Books of Justinian's Institutions''</big>
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|commontitle=Justinian's Institutes
|author=
|trans=George Harris
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed by J. Purser for M. Withers
|year=1761
|edition=Second
|lang=Latin and English
|pages=iv, 73, 121, 100, 92, [11], [4]
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}}[[File:DJustinianiInstitutionumLibriQuator1761Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|400px|<center>Illustration, dedication.</center>]]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> 
 
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'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:397 [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.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/1983175 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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Corpus Juris Civilis

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<big>''Corpus Juris Civilis: Pandectis ad Florentinum Archetypum Expressis, Institutionibus, Codice et Novellis, Addito Textu Græco, ut & in Digestis & Codice, Legibus & Constitutionibus Græcis, cum Optimis Quibusque Editionibus Collatis''</big>
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|editor=Denis Godefroy
|lang=Latin
|publoc=Amstelodami
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}}[[File:CorpusJurisCivilis1663v1HalfTitle.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Half-title, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_juris_civilis ''Corpus Juris Civilis''] ("Body of Civil Law") is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence issued from 529 to 534 by order of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I Justinian I], Byzantine Emperor. Spurred on by the revival of interest in the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages, Justinian created a commission to collect legal materials of various kinds into several new volumes. He and his minister, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribonian Tribonian], effectively "saved and transformed the Roman law library."<ref>Peter Birks and Grant McLeod, "Introduction" in ''Justinian's Institutes'' (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1987), 8.</ref> During the eleventh century, scholars who studied and commented upon the ''Corpus Juris Civilis'' created national legal systems throughout Europe, making it a model for almost every European nation.<ref>''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/columency/corpus_juris_civilis Corpus Juris Civilis]," accessed October 10, 2013.</ref> 
 
''Corpus Juris Civilis'' is divided into four parts: the ''Digest'', the ''Codex'', the ''Institutes'', and the ''Novels''.<ref>''The Macquarie Dictionary'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/macqdict/corpus_juris_civilis Corpus Juris Civilis]," accessed October 10, 2013.</ref> The ''Digest'', the largest of the works, preserved the writings of classical jurists.<ref>Birks and McLeod, "Introduction," 10.</ref> The Codex compiled all of the existing imperial constitutiones (imperial pronouncements having the force of law), back to the time of Hadrian. It used both the ''Codex Theodosianus'' and the fourth-century collections embodied in the ''Codex Gregorianus'' and ''Codex Hermogenianus''.<ref>Ibid, 9.</ref> The ''Institutes'' provided an introduction to the law for students, and the ''Novels'' were the new pronouncements of Justinian that followed the completion of the other parts of the ''Corpus''.[5]
[[File:CorpusJurisCivilis1663v1HalfTItleEmbossedStamp.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Detail of embossed stamp, half-title, volume one.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[?] juris civilis. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[James Dinsmore]]. While the precise title and work are unknown, it is highly likely that Jefferson's notation refers to a copy of ''Corpus Juris Civilis''. 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 1726, 2 volume, folio edition based in part on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:399-400 [no.2196].</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 notes "Precise work/edition unknown. Possibly an edition of Denis Godefroy's ''Corpus juris civilis''." The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the 1663 Amsterdam edition from the general rare books collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in quarter-calf with speckled boards. Spine features five raised bands with blind-tooled stamps and red labels. Title page of volume one and half-title of volume two inscribed "Grosley." Half-title in volume one includes an embossed stamp. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/2108263 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:CorpusJurisCivilis1663v1Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|450px|<center>Headpiece, dedication, volume one.</center>]]
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Institutionum Imperialium Commentarius

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<big>''Arnoldi Vinnii JC. in Quatuor Libros Institutionum Imperialium Commentarius: Academicus & Forensis''</big>
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|editor=Arnoldus Vinnius and Johann Gottlieb Heinneccius
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|caption=Bookplate of The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lymington, front pastedown.}}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'' serve 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> 
 
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> 
Today, Justinian's ''Institutes'' form the basis of modern European civil law and their influence is often conspicuous.<ref>Ibid., 18-28.</ref> 
 
This version of the ''Institutes'', ''Institutionum Imperialium Commentarius'', includes commentary by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Vinnius Arnoldus Vinnius] (1588-1657), professor of law at Leiden. The "commentary draws on the best recent scholarship, but in addition it both goes back to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossators Glossators] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postglossator Postglossators] and also brings in modern legal practice, especially in the decisions of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Conseil 'Grand Conseil'] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malines Malines]."<ref>Ibid., 22.</ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Heineccius J. G. Heineccius] (1681-1741) expanded Vinnius' original work to produce the present edition.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Vi?]nnii institutiones. 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 the 1726 Leiden edition of ''Arnoldi Vinii J.C. In Quatuor Libros Institutionum Imperialium: Commentrius Academicus & Forensis''. [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 15, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing lists the title, ''D. Justiniani, Sacratissimi Principis, Institutionum, sive, Elementorum, Libri Quatuor'', and notes "Precise edition unknown. Vinnius' edition of this work was published multiple times with similar titles." The Wolf Law Library owns copies of both titles mentioned by Brown and LibraryThing. But the library's copy of ''D. Justiniani, Sacratissimi Principis, Institutionum, sive, Elementorum, Libri Quatuor'', published in Amsterdam in 1669, is a two-volume duodecimo, therefore it was not added to the [[George Wythe Collection]]. The library also owns a copy of the quarto 1726 publication ''Arnoldi Vinnii JC. in Quatuor Libros Institutionum Imperialium: Commentarius Academicus & Forensis'', which was moved from the general rare books collection to the George Wythe Collection.
[[File:VinniusInstitutionum1726Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Illustration of paternal relationships, opposite page 563.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full calf; spine features raised bands, gilt-decorated compartments and a gilt-lettered label. Includes the bookplate of "The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lymington with the French motto "En suivant la verite" (Following truth) on the front pastedown.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/2049856 William & Mary's online catalog.]

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Tenenda Non Tollenda

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<big>''Tenenda non tollenda, or The Necessity of Preserving Tenures in Capite and by Knightservice, which According to Their First Institution were, and are yet, a Great Part of the Salus Populi, and the Safety and Defence of the King, as well as of His People: Together with a Prospect of the Very Many Mischiefs and Inconveniences, which by the Taking Away or Altering of Those Tenures, Will Inevitably Happen to the King and his Kingdomes''</big>
===by Fabian Philipps===
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|publisher=Printed by Thomas Leach, for the author, and are to be sold by Abel Roper
|year=1660
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|pages=7, 276
|desc=8vo (19 cm.)
}}[[File:PhillipsTenendaNonTollendaInitialCapitalDedication.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Initial capital, dedication.</center>]]When he was a youth, Fabian Philipps (1601-1690) attended one of the Inns of Chancery before eventually attending the Middle Temple.<ref>James Granger, "Biographical History of England" in ''A Biographical History of England: From Egbert the Great to the Revolution: Consisting of Characters Disposed in Different Classes, and Adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads: Intended as an Essay Towards Reducing Our Biography to System, and a Help to the Knowledge of Portraits: Interspersed with a Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a Great Number of Persons'' 5th ed. (London: Baynes, 1824), 129.</ref> It was during his time at the Middle Temple that Philipps developed a thorough understanding of the law.<ref>Ibid.</ref> After Philipps departed the Middle Temple he began to demonstrate a fiercely pro-royal philosophy.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was so strong an advocate for the king’s prerogative, that two days before Charles I was beheaded, and despite the extreme unpopularity of Philipps' conduct, he drew up a protest against the "intended murder" of the king.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
After the restoration of Charles II, when the Bill for Abolishing Tenures was pending in Parliament, Philipps published ''Tenenda non Tollenda'', a protest against the dissolution of tenure.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The title was one of three works written by Philipps on the abolition of tenures; the other two were ''Ligeancia Lugens, or, Loyaltie Lamenting the Many Great Mischiefs and Inconveniences which Will Fatally and Inevitably Follow the Taking Away of the Royal Pourveyances and Tenures in Capite (1661) and ''The Mistaken Recompense for Pourveyance and Tenures'' (1664).<ref>Nicholas Jagger, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22115 Philipps, Fabian (1601–1690)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed June 7, 2013.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
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 a choice of the first edition (1660) of Fabian Philipps' ''Tenenda non Tollenda'' or the first edition (1661) of W. Phillips' ''The Principles of Law Reduced to Practice'' based on quotations in the manuscript copy of [[John Marshall|John Marshall's]] law notes "Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common: One deserved £100 to five equally to be divided between them & the survivors & survivor of them & if A (one of the five) died before marriage, her share to go over to another person, held a tenancy in common. Philips."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Brown notes that ''Tenenda Non Tollenda'' fits the subject matter of Marshall's quote better, but [[Thomas Jefferson]] owned a copy of ''The Principles of Law Reduced to Practice''. Favoring the subject matter link over the Jefferson link, the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the Fabian Philipps' 1660 ''Tenenda non Tollenda''.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in later period-style calf with lettering piece and gilt fillets on the spine, dentelles to board edges and renewed endpapers. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/3439236 William & Mary's online catalog.]
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Law of Uses and Trusts

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<big>''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''</big>
===by Geoffrey Gilbert===
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|author=Geoffrey Gilbert
|publoc=In the Savoy
|publisher=Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (Assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for R. Gosling
|year=1734
|edition=First
|lang=English
|pages=[4], 437, [81]
|desc=8vo (20 cm.)
}}[[File:GilbertLawOfUsesAndTrusts1734HalfTitle.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Gilbert_(judge) Sir Geoffrey (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.

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Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain

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===by Sir John Dalrymple===
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|publoc=London
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|pages=vii, 332
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Dalrymple,_4th_Baronet Sir John Dalrymple] (1726-1810), the fourth baronet in the family, received his education at Edinburgh University and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.<ref>Nicolas Phillipson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7055 Dalrymple, Sir John, of Cousland, fourth baronet (1726–1810)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 4, 2013.</ref> In 1748 he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. Dalrymple was elected as solicitor to the board of excise as well as depute lord advocate, moved up to the bench of the court of exchequer, and participated as a member of Edinburgh literati and other prominent societies such as the Select Society and the Glasgow Literary Society. As a lawyer and writer, Dalrymple was concerned with furthering the study of law both in a philosophical and historical sense. His ''Essay towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain'' was posthumously dedicated to Montesquieu.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Goodwin's pamphlet,<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings''] (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLVII.</ref> [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 10 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref>, and Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> all include ''Essay towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain''. Dean and Goodwin relied upon on a reference in William Edwin Hemphill's dissertation on Wythe, "[[George Wythe the Colonial Briton]]." In discussing [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] commonplace book, Hemphill states "The succeeding section of the book, written between 1774 and 1777, was based ... upon more philosophical materials, including Sir John Dalrymple's ''Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain''."<ref>William Edwin Hemphill, "George Wythe the Colonial Briton: A Biographical Study of the Pre-Revolutionary Era in Virginia" (PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1937), 127.</ref> Brown cites Hemphill but also refers to Jefferson's commonplace book itself.<ref>''The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government'', ed. Gilbert Chinard (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1926), 135-136.</ref> Jefferson studied law under Wythe from 1762 to 1767, so the entries from the mid 1770s may not reflect Wythe's influence. Nevertheless, Dean lists the 1757 edition as mentioned by Hemphill. Goodwin and Brown note the third (1758) edition which Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:317-318 [no.2005].</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Dean's recommendation and purchased the 1757 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period style full calf with gilt-ruled spine and red label.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/533256 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=sY9AAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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

Jus Feudale

2014-05-02T19:26:45Z

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<big>''Jus Feudale: Tribus Libris Comprehensum: Quibus Non Solùm Consuetudines Feudales, & Praediorum Jura, Quae in Scotia, Anglia & Plerisque Galliae Locis Obtinent, Continentur; Sed Universum Jus Scoticum, & Omnes Ferè Materiae Juris Clarè & Dilucidè Exponuntur, & Ad Fontes Juris Feudalis & Civilis Singula Reducuntur''</big>
===by Sir Thomas Craig===
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|publoc=Edinburgi
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}}[[File:CraigJusFeudale1732Portrait.jpg |left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Craig_(jurist) Thomas Craig] (c. 1538 – February 26, 1608) was a Scottish lawyer, jurist, and poet. He studied at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Leonard%27s_College_%28University_of_St_Andrews%29 St. Leonard's College] in St. Andrews and at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris University of Paris]. In 1563, Craig was admitted as an advocate in the courts of Scotland.<ref>John W. Cairns, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6580 Craig, Thomas (1538?–1608)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., Jan. 2008, accessed 8 July 2013.</ref>

"[He] probably started work on ''Jus feudale'' in the late 1590s and there is considerable internal evidence to suggest that much of it was written in 1600. There was at least one revision, probably in 1606. The culmination of a lifetime's professional involvement in Scots law, it was enriched by frequent allusions to practice. Written in admirably clear Latin (which the poor English translation represents rather miserably), it is a typical humanistic work in its classical quotations and references and historical and philological discussions. That it originated in a patriotic concern for Scots law is revealed by Craig's stated Ciceronian aim of reducing that law to an ordered science, thereby making it easier for students to learn. He achieves this admirably, writing an accessible, learned, and well-structured work, in which he stresses the feudal origins of much Scots law (and English law too), and from that basis explains and expounds his subject in a logical fashion. He ultimately validates Scots law and its practices in the law of nature and nations in a way that to some extent anticipates [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius Grotius]...Craig's systematic account of feudal land law and its principles influenced numerous later Scottish writers...but also had an impact on English legal writers and on English understanding of the history of the common law."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Cragii Jus feudale.fol.'' This was one of the books kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. 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 1732 edition, based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:210 [no.1766].</ref> while [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 indicates "precise edition unknown; folio editions were published in 1655 and 1732." The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the 1732 Edinburgh edition from another rare books collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Recently rebound in period style. Spine features four bands with gilt rules with green label. Title page punched "Biddle Library Univ. Penn." Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/56673 William & Mary's online catalog].

[[File:CraigJusFeudale1732Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
==References==
<references/>

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Institutes of Natural Law

2014-05-02T19:25:26Z

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<big>''Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on Grotius De Jure Belli et Pacis''</big>
===by Thomas Rutherforth===
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}}[[File:RutherforthInstitutesOfNaturalLaw1754InscriptionFPD.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rutherforth Thomas Rutherforth] (1712-1771) was an English moral philosopher, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regius_Professor_of_Divinity regius professor of divinity] at Cambridge, and archdeacon of Essex.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:643.</ref> Rutherforth taught physical science privately while at Cambridge, as he had a great interest in natural and moral philosophy.<ref>John Gascoigne, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24367 Rutherforth, Thomas (1712–1771)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 21, 2013.</ref> His lectures were published as the ''Institutes of Natural Law'' in two volumes in 1754 and 1756, respectively.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The work "draws heavily on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius Grotius] and considers morality chiefly in terms of its social consequences."<ref>Ibid.</ref> "''Institutes of Natural Law'' was a work widely read and cited among those of the founding generation" of the United States.<ref>Gary L. McDowell, "[http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ajj37&collection=journals&page=57#64 The Limits of Natural Law: Thomas Rutherforth and the American Legal Tradition]," ''The American Journal of Jurisprudence'' 37 (1992): 58, accessed Oct. 21, 2013.</ref> The founders relied on the treatise while creating and ratifying the Constitution; it was used in early legal education in the United States, and was frequently cited by judges in state and federal cases.<ref>Ibid, 59-60.</ref> 
[[File:RutherforthInstitutesOfNaturalLaw1754InscriptionFFL.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf, volume one.</center>]] 
Rutherforth’s work brought him recognition and career advancement. He served as chaplain to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Prince_of_Wales Frederick, Prince of Wales], and later to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Augusta_of_Saxe-Gotha princess dowager] for a time. His wife was Charlotte Elizabeth Abdy, whose father was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Abdy,_4th_Baronet#Sir_William_Abdy.2C_4th_Baronet Sir William Abdy], fourth baronet of Albyns.<ref>Gascoigne, “Rutherforth, Thomas.”</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), 16 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> includes the first (1754-1756) edition of Thomas Rutherforth's ''Institutes of Natural Law'' based on a reference in Bernard Mayo's biography of Henry Clay, ''Henry Clay: Spokesman of the New West''.<ref>Bernard Mayo, ''Henry Clay: Spokesman of the New West'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937), 26.</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> suggests either the first edition published in Cambridge, or the third (1799) edition published in Philadelphia, based on a reference in Wythe's case report for [[Aylett v. Aylett]]: "See Rutherforth on Grotius b.1. c. VI. s. V."<ref>George Wythe, ''Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery'' ed. B. B. Minor, 2nd ed. (Richmond: J.W. Randolph, 1852), 225.</ref> Brown notes "In all probability Wythe may have owned the Philadelphia edition." Based on the evidence we cannot determine precisely which edition Wythe owned. The Wolf Law Library followed Dean's recommendation and purchased a copy of the first edition.
[[File:RutherforthInstitutesOfNaturalLaw1754Poem.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Manuscript poem, rear free endpaper verso, volume one.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with red morocco title labels and black morocco volume labels to spines. Includes previous owner's signatures: "Babington" to front pastedown of volume one, "W. Weddington" to front fly leaves of both volumes, and "R. Jacson" to both front free endpapers. Volume one also has a manuscript poem, "By the sea," on the rear free endpaper verso and the rear pastedown. Purchased from Meyer Boswell Books, Inc. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3266233 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=62tHAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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

Institutes of Natural Law

2014-05-02T19:24:13Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Institutes of Natural Law''}}
<big>''Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on Grotius De Jure Belli et Pacis''</big>
===by Thomas Rutherforth===
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}}[[File:RutherforthInstitutesOfNaturalLaw1754InscriptionFPD.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rutherforth Thomas Rutherforth] (1712-1771) was an English moral philosopher, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regius_Professor_of_Divinity regius professor of divinity] at Cambridge, and archdeacon of Essex.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:643.</ref> Rutherforth taught physical science privately while at Cambridge, as he had a great interest in natural and moral philosophy.<ref>John Gascoigne, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24367 Rutherforth, Thomas (1712–1771)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 21, 2013.</ref> His lectures were published as the ''Institutes of Natural Law'' in two volumes in 1754 and 1756, respectively.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The work "draws heavily on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius Grotius] and considers morality chiefly in terms of its social consequences."<ref>Ibid.</ref> "''Institutes of Natural Law'' was a work widely read and cited among those of the founding generation" of the United States.<ref>Gary L. McDowell, "[http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ajj37&collection=journals&page=57#64 The Limits of Natural Law: Thomas Rutherforth and the American Legal Tradition]," ''The American Journal of Jurisprudence'' 37 (1992): 58, accessed Oct. 21, 2013.</ref> The founders relied on the treatise while creating and ratifying the Constitution; it was used in early legal education in the United States, and was frequently cited by judges in state and federal cases.<ref>McDowell, “The Limits of Natural Law,” 59-60.</ref> 
[[File:RutherforthInstitutesOfNaturalLaw1754InscriptionFFL.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf, volume one.</center>]] 
Rutherforth’s work brought him recognition and career advancement. He served as chaplain to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Prince_of_Wales Frederick, Prince of Wales], and later to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Augusta_of_Saxe-Gotha princess dowager] for a time. His wife was Charlotte Elizabeth Abdy, whose father was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Abdy,_4th_Baronet#Sir_William_Abdy.2C_4th_Baronet Sir William Abdy], fourth baronet of Albyns.<ref>Gascoigne, “Rutherforth, Thomas.”</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), 16 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> includes the first (1754-1756) edition of Thomas Rutherforth's ''Institutes of Natural Law'' based on a reference in Bernard Mayo's biography of Henry Clay, ''Henry Clay: Spokesman of the New West''.<ref>Bernard Mayo, ''Henry Clay: Spokesman of the New West'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937), 26.</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> suggests either the first edition published in Cambridge, or the third (1799) edition published in Philadelphia, based on a reference in Wythe's case report for [[Aylett v. Aylett]]: "See Rutherforth on Grotius b.1. c. VI. s. V."<ref>George Wythe, ''Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery'' ed. B. B. Minor, 2nd ed. (Richmond: J.W. Randolph, 1852), 225.</ref> Brown notes "In all probability Wythe may have owned the Philadelphia edition." Based on the evidence we cannot determine precisely which edition Wythe owned. The Wolf Law Library followed Dean's recommendation and purchased a copy of the first edition.
[[File:RutherforthInstitutesOfNaturalLaw1754Poem.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Manuscript poem, rear free endpaper verso, volume one.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with red morocco title labels and black morocco volume labels to spines. Includes previous owner's signatures: "Babington" to front pastedown of volume one, "W. Weddington" to front fly leaves of both volumes, and "R. Jacson" to both front free endpapers. Volume one also has a manuscript poem, "By the sea," on the rear free endpaper verso and the rear pastedown. Purchased from Meyer Boswell Books, Inc. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3266233 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=62tHAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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

De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem

2014-05-02T19:22:42Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem''}}
<big>''S. Pufendorfii, De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem Libri Duo: Selectis Variorum Notis, Maximeq; Propriis Illustravit... Buddei Historiam Juris Naturalis Notis Adauctam Præmisit, Indicemq ''</big>
===by Samuel Pufendorf===
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|author=Samuel Pufendorf
|editor=Thomas Johnson
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|publisher=impensis G. Thurlbourn
|year=1758
|pages=1, xvi, 513
|desc=8vo (20 cm.)
}}[[File:PufendorfDeOfficioHominis1758Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pufendorf Samuel Pufendorf] (1632-1694), "[t]he most significant moral and political philosopher of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe,"<ref>''Encyclopedia of Ethics'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/routethics/pufendorf_samuel_freiherr_von_1632_1694 Pufendorf, Samuel Freiherr von (1632-1694)]," accessed October 10, 2013.</ref> was born in 1632 in Dorfchemnitz, Germany to a Saxton family of orthodox Lutherans.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Pufendorf's education began at home until, at age thirteen, he qualified for admission to the subsidized Fürstenschule at Grimma.<ref>Michael Seidler, "[http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/pufendorf-moral/ Pufendorf's Moral and Political Philosophy]," ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ''(Spring 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta, ed.)</ref> He followed this with study at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_University University of Leipzig] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Jena University of Jena]. Pufendorf developed his first main work, without the aid of books or manuscripts, while imprisoned during the war between Sweden and Denmark.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Entitled ''Elementa Jurisprudentiae Universalis'' and published in 1660, it "integrate[d] [Hugo] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius Grotius] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes Thomas Hobbes] into a larger natural law synthesis" using "the 'mathematical' method of [Pufendorf's] Jena professor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Weigel Er-hard Weigel]."<ref>''Encyclopedia of Ethics'', s.v. "Pufendorf, Samuel Freiherr von (1632-1694)."</ref> From 1661 to 1668, Pufendorf served as professor of natural and international law in Heidelberg, then held the same position at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund_University University of Lund] from 1668 to 1676.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
In 1672, Pufendorf published ''De Jure Naturae et Gentium'' (''On the Law of Nature and of Nations''), followed by ''De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem'' (''On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law'' in 1673. The latter was a condensation of the former, "a landmark work that proposed a thorough system of private, public, and international law based on natural law. Beginning with a consideration of fundamental legal ideas and their various divisions, Pufendorf proceed[ed] to a discussion of the validity of customs, the doctrines of necessity and innate human reason ... Pufendorf argued that peace, not war, was the state of nature, and he proposed that international law was not restricted to Christendom."<ref>''British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955,'' compact ed. (New York: Readers Microprint Corporation, 1967) 20:1074.</ref> 
 
Integral to Pufendorf's writing was the concept of a natural state. He deemed it so significant that he "considered political tracts which ignore[d] it 'gravely defective.'"<ref>Ibid.</ref> Pufendorf separated the law's injunctions, in accordance with the separations of the natural state, into three categories: (1) those toward God (adversus Deum), (2) those toward ourselves (adversus seipsum), and (3) those toward other humans (adversus alios homines).<ref>Seidler, "Pufendorf's Moral and Political Philosophy."</ref> ''De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem'' was published continually, translated into several different languages, and became a staple of university education.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
[[File:PufendorfDeOfficioHominis1758Inscription2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription and tail-piece, last page of preface.</center>]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Puffendorf de officio hominis et civis. Johnson 8vo." and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold a copy of the 1735 Thomas Johnson edition of ''S. Puffendorfii de Officio Hominis et Civis juxta Legem Naturalem'' to the Library of Congress in 1815, but the volume contains no evidence to conclusively verify Wythe's previous ownership.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:11 [no.1253.]</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"] accessed on March 4, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing notes "Precise edition unknown. Octavo editions were published at Cambridge in 1735, and at London in 1737, 1748, and 1758." 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> mentions the Library of Congress copy, while acknowledging that Jefferson owned a second Johnson edition of Pufendorf's work that his family sold in 1829. Because we do not know which edition Wythe owned, the Wolf Law Library found an available copy of the 1758 Johnson edition and purchased it.
[[File:PufendorfDeOfficioHominis1758InscriptionLPT.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription and tail-piece, last page of text.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards with raised bands, a lettering piece to the spine, and renewed endpapers. Contains numerous signatures of early owner, William Jackson. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3267500 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

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

De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem

2014-05-02T19:22:00Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem''}}
<big>''S. Pufendorfii, De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem Libri Duo: Selectis Variorum Notis, Maximeq; Propriis Illustravit... Buddei Historiam Juris Naturalis Notis Adauctam Præmisit, Indicemq ''</big>
===by Samuel Pufendorf===
__NOTOC__
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}}[[File:PufendorfDeOfficioHominis1758Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pufendorf Samuel Pufendorf] (1632-1694), "[t]he most significant moral and political philosopher of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe,"<ref>''Encyclopedia of Ethics'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/routethics/pufendorf_samuel_freiherr_von_1632_1694 Pufendorf, Samuel Freiherr von (1632-1694)]," accessed October 10, 2013.</ref> was born in 1632 in Dorfchemnitz, Germany to a Saxton family of orthodox Lutherans.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Pufendorf's education began at home until, at age thirteen, he qualified for admission to the subsidized Fürstenschule at Grimma.<ref>Michael Seidler, "[http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/pufendorf-moral/ Pufendorf's Moral and Political Philosophy]," ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ''(Spring 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta, ed.)</ref> He followed this with study at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_University University of Leipzig] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Jena University of Jena]. Pufendorf developed his first main work, without the aid of books or manuscripts, while imprisoned during the war between Sweden and Denmark.<ref>Seidler, "Pufendorf's Moral and Political Philosophy."</ref> Entitled ''Elementa Jurisprudentiae Universalis'' and published in 1660, it "integrate[d] [Hugo] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius Grotius] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes Thomas Hobbes] into a larger natural law synthesis" using "the 'mathematical' method of [Pufendorf's] Jena professor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Weigel Er-hard Weigel]."<ref>''Encyclopedia of Ethics'', s.v. "Pufendorf, Samuel Freiherr von (1632-1694)."</ref> From 1661 to 1668, Pufendorf served as professor of natural and international law in Heidelberg, then held the same position at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund_University University of Lund] from 1668 to 1676.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
In 1672, Pufendorf published ''De Jure Naturae et Gentium'' (''On the Law of Nature and of Nations''), followed by ''De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem'' (''On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law'' in 1673. The latter was a condensation of the former, "a landmark work that proposed a thorough system of private, public, and international law based on natural law. Beginning with a consideration of fundamental legal ideas and their various divisions, Pufendorf proceed[ed] to a discussion of the validity of customs, the doctrines of necessity and innate human reason ... Pufendorf argued that peace, not war, was the state of nature, and he proposed that international law was not restricted to Christendom."<ref>''British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955,'' compact ed. (New York: Readers Microprint Corporation, 1967) 20:1074.</ref> 
 
Integral to Pufendorf's writing was the concept of a natural state. He deemed it so significant that he "considered political tracts which ignore[d] it 'gravely defective.'"<ref>Ibid.</ref> Pufendorf separated the law's injunctions, in accordance with the separations of the natural state, into three categories: (1) those toward God (adversus Deum), (2) those toward ourselves (adversus seipsum), and (3) those toward other humans (adversus alios homines).<ref>Seidler, "Pufendorf's Moral and Political Philosophy."</ref> ''De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem'' was published continually, translated into several different languages, and became a staple of university education.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
[[File:PufendorfDeOfficioHominis1758Inscription2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription and tail-piece, last page of preface.</center>]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Puffendorf de officio hominis et civis. Johnson 8vo." and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold a copy of the 1735 Thomas Johnson edition of ''S. Puffendorfii de Officio Hominis et Civis juxta Legem Naturalem'' to the Library of Congress in 1815, but the volume contains no evidence to conclusively verify Wythe's previous ownership.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:11 [no.1253.]</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"] accessed on March 4, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing notes "Precise edition unknown. Octavo editions were published at Cambridge in 1735, and at London in 1737, 1748, and 1758." 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> mentions the Library of Congress copy, while acknowledging that Jefferson owned a second Johnson edition of Pufendorf's work that his family sold in 1829. Because we do not know which edition Wythe owned, the Wolf Law Library found an available copy of the 1758 Johnson edition and purchased it.
[[File:PufendorfDeOfficioHominis1758InscriptionLPT.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription and tail-piece, last page of text.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards with raised bands, a lettering piece to the spine, and renewed endpapers. Contains numerous signatures of early owner, William Jackson. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3267500 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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Of the Law of Nature and Nations

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===by Samuel Pufendorf===
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}}[[File:PufendorfOfTheLawofNatureAndNations1710Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Inscription, front pastedown.</center>]]''Of the Law of Nature and Nations'', originally published in 1672 as ''De Jure Naturae et Gentium Libri Octo'', proposed a system of private, public, and international law based on natural law. It was written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pufendorf Baron Samuel von Pufendorf] (1632–1694), a German political philosopher, statesman, and historian.<ref>''Encyclopedia Britannica'', s.v. "Pufendorf, Samuel von."</ref> The son of a Saxon clergyman, he had originally intended to pursue a career in the church, but after studying theology at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_University University of Leipzig] his interests shifted to politics, law, and philosophy. In 1658 Pufendorf became a tutor to a minister to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_X_Gustav_of_Sweden King Charles X of Sweden], and three years later he was granted a chair at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_University University of Heidelberg] for the law of nature and nations, the first of its kind in the world.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Two years after accepting an offer from the King of Sweden to teach at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund_University University of Lund], Pufendorf published this book.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Pufendorf was highly critical of those who abused power, whether they did so through the state or the church, and he proposed that international law should not be restricted to Christendom and instead respect the rights of all men.<ref>Alfred Dufour, ''The Politics of Discretion. Pufendorf and the Acceptance of Natural Law'' (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1965), 1007.</ref> It was highly influential, not only in Germany, where it is said to have contributed to the Enlightenment during the eighteenth century, but throughout Europe and eventually in the United States. Pufendorf’s grounding of political concepts in natural law made him a person of interest to future American leaders such as [[Thomas Jefferson]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_madison James Madison], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton Alexander Hamilton].<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Puffendorf.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[James Dinsmore]]. The precise title and work are unknown. 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 choice of either the 1749 English edition or the 1740 French edition of Pufendorf's work based in part on the copies Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:69-70 [no.1406-no.1407].</ref> and also on citations from Wythe's arguments in Bolling v. Bolling.<ref>Thomas Jefferson, ''Thomas Jefferson and Bolling v. Bolling: Law and the Legal Profession in Pre-Revolutionary America'', ed. Bernard Schwartz, with Barbara Wilcie Kern, R.B. Bernstein (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; New York: New York University School of Law, c1997).</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing notes "Precise work/edition unknown. Probably an English-language edition of Pufendorf's ''The law of nature and nations'', but could also be one of several possible works in Latin or English." The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1710 (second edition) English translation of ''De Jure Naturae et Gentium Libri Octo'' to represent this entry in Jefferson's inventory.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full calf, rebacked in period style. Includes the inscription "Year MDCCX Oxford, VerPlanck Colvin, Albany, N. Y., U. S., Owner, Purchased for V. C. Library." on the front pastedown. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/2091268 William & Mary's online catalog.]
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Rights of War and Peace

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<big>''The Rights of War and Peace, in Three Books: Wherein are Explained, the Law of Nature and Nations, and the Principal Points Relating to Government''</big>
===by Hugo Grotius===
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|trans=Jean Barbeyrac
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_grotius Hugo Grotius] (1583-1645) is often touted as the "Father of International Law."<ref>Sean Murphy, ''Principles of International Law'', (Minnesota: Thompson West, 2006), chap. 3.</ref> Grotius influenced thinkers like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_locke John Locke] with his ideas of international law as natural law, or principles derived inherently from the human nature or human reason.<ref>Jeremy Waldron, ''God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought'', (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 189.</ref> Grotius also wrote extensively on maritime law and the law of war. 
 
In his three-book set ''De Jure Belli ac Pacis'' (''The Rights of War and Peace''), first published in 1625, Grotius maintains that natural law principles are universally binding on all people. The first book defines war and outlines circumstances when it is justifiable.<ref>Miller, Jon, "[http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/grotius/ Hugo Grotius]," ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta, ed.</ref> The second classifies just causes for war, including self-defense, reparation of injury, and punishment.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The concluding book questions the rules of war and how they are universally binding.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Together, Grotius' books present a theory of just war, delineating between jus ad bello and jus in bello, or just causes of going to war and justice in war respectively.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Grotius'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[James Dinsmore]]. While the precise title and work are unknown, it is highly likely that Jefferson's notation refers to a copy of ''The Rights of War and Peace''. 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 both include the 1738 English title based on a copy sold at auction in 1881 which contained [[George Wythe's bookplate]].<ref>''Catalogue of the Choice and Extensive Law and Miscellaneous Library of the late Hon. William Green, LL.D., … to be sold by Auction, January 18th, 1881, at Richmond, VA.'' (Richmond: John E. Laughton, Jr., 1881), 65 "645. Grotius (H.). The Rights of War and Peace, with notes of J. Barbeyrac. Folio. London: 1738. Armorial book plate of George Wythe."</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 raised bands and a lettering piece on the spine. The endpapers have been renewed. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/2949719 William & Mary's online catalog.]
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Principles of Equity

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===by Henry Home, Lord Kames===
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|publoc=Edinburgh
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Home,_Lord_Kames Henry Home] (1696–1782), later known as Lord Kames, was a key figure in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Enlightenment Scottish Enlightenment]. His written works primarily addressed legal matters, but extended to include philosophy, history, religion, and literature.<ref>"[www.scottishphilosophy.org/lord-kames.html Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782)]" on International Association for Scottish Philosophy website, accessed October 22, 2013.</ref> Born into a large family with a great deal of debt, Home was never formally educated at university, but he trained under James Craig at a civil law college while continuing to study such topics as the classics and additional languages on his own to make up for the deficits in his education.<ref>Alastair J. Durie and Stuart Handley, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13643 Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696–1782)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 22, 2013.</ref> Notably a hard worker of high intellect, Home eventually developed a respected legal practice after being appointed to the bar in 1723. Around that time, he began to write at length on legal topics, a practice that continued even after his ascension to the bench in 1752.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1763, Lord Kames (Home) reached a long-time goal when he was appointed to the justiciary, Scotland’s criminal court.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Kames remained active and possessed of his characteristic cruel wit up until his death in 1782.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Kames’ ''Principles of Equity'' (1760) represented the first detailed, written study of equity in English,<ref>Daniel James Carr, “An Iron Mind in an Iron Body: Lord Kames and His Principles of Equity,” ''Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper'', 2013/25 (2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2282735 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2282735.</ref> and Scottish legal historians consider it to be his major work.<ref>Durie and Handley, “Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696–1782).” </ref> In it, Kames intended to evaluate, compare, and reconcile the differing legal systems of jurisprudence of England and Scotland.<ref>Carr, “An Iron Mind in an Iron Body.”</ref> Although the work was theoretical, Kames devoted some attention to more practical matters, including a discussion of the rules governing bankruptcy.<ref>Durie and Handley, “Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696–1782).” </ref> Well received in its time, ''Principles of Equity'' served as a source cited by both Scottish and early American lawyers.<ref>Carr, “An Iron Mind in an Iron Body.”</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Kaim's Pr. Eq. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. Two folio editions of this title were published.<ref>''English Short Title Catalog'', http://estc.bl.uk, search of "Principles of Equity and Kames" reveals folio editions published in 1760 and 1767.</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> includes the 1760 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 April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Folio editions of this work were published at Edinburgh in 1760 and 1767." The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the 1760 edition from another rare book collection to the George Wythe Collection.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Recently rebound in period style. Spine features four bands with gilt rules and green labels. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/21962 William & Mary's online catalog.]

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Treatise of Equity

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===by Henry Ballow===
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|publoc=London, In the Savoy
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ballow Henry Ballow] [Bellewe] (1704?-1782) was admitted to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_College,_Cambridge Magdalene College, Cambridge] in 1720 and admitted to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_Inn Lincoln’s Inn] the following year.<ref>N.G. Jones "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1242 Ballow, Henry (b. 1704?, d. 1782]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed March 20, 2014.</ref> He was called to the bar in 1728 and became deputy chamberlain in 1731, a position he may have received through his close relationship with the elite Townshend family or through the influence of his father, who may have held the same position at one time.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Ballow had a reputation as a scholarly man, despite the criticisms of his contemporaries, who described him as "a little deformed man" with “vulgar manners.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was known for his proficiency with the Greek language and as a master of the "old philosophy."<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:192.</ref> Ballow produced one of the most influential treatises on equity: ''A Treatise of Equity'', first published in 1737. 
 
Although ''A Treatise of Equity'' was published anonymously, scholars are fairly confident about its authorship. They cite the assertion of two separate contemporaries to support this claim.<ref>Ibid., 191.</ref> However, that it was written only ten years into Ballow’s legal career and reveals the influence of Roman law training upon the author creates some doubt.<ref>Jones, "Ballow, Henry."</ref> Nevertheless, the written evidence strongly supports the assertion that Ballow was the author.<ref>Holdsworth, ‘’A History of English Law,’’ 191.</ref> 
 
It is generally regarded as well written, even though Ballow cites few authorities and does not include references for cases.<ref>Ibid.</ref> For those familiar with the case law at the time, Ballow evidently included enough detail that the cases could be readily identified.<ref>Ibid.</ref> However, for those unfamiliar with the law of equity, this would have greatly diminished the work’s value.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Because of this omission, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Fonblanque John Fonblanque] sought to update Ballow’s work.<ref>Ibid., 193.</ref> His commentaries, published in 1793, brought the work up to date with the ever-changing contours of equity law and added the omitted citations.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Amended, the work maintained its prominence and went into a fifth edition in 1820.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Treatise on Equity, fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. The first edition is the only folio edition of this work.<ref>''English Short Title Catalog'', http://estc.bl.uk, search of "Treatise of Equity" reveals only one folio edition.</ref> Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. 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 April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the first edition of this title. The Wolf Law Library followed their recommendations and purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with blind rules to the boards and blind fillets along the joints. The spine features raised raised bands and a lettering piece. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/2949652 William & Mary's online catalog.]

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Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker

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===by Richard Hooker===
<big>''The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: in Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity''</big>
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}}[[File:HookerWorks1723Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece portrait of Richard Hooker.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker Richard Hooker] (1554-1600) began his education at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi_College,_Oxford Corpus Christi College, Oxford,] in 1569,<ref>A. S. McGrade “[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13696 Hooker, Richard (1554–1600)],” in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> at a time when the Anglican Church was steeped in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism Calvinist thought.]<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s. v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/271324/Richard-Hooker Richard Hooker]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> Hooker received an interdisciplinary education, including classical philosophy and artistic disciplines alongside his primary studies in theology,<ref>A. S. McGrade, "Hooker, Richard (1554–1600)".</ref> which would bear heavily upon his most significant scholarly endeavor—''The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity''.<ref>James E. Kiefer, "[http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/64.html Biographical Sketches of Memorable Christians of the Past: Richard Hooker, Doctor of the Church]," Society of Archbishop Justus, accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> Writing this eight-volume opus necessitated resignation from his post as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Temple#Master_of_the_Temple Master of the Temple Church] in London in 1591.<ref>A. S. McGrade, "Hooker, Richard (1554–1600)".</ref> The first five books were published during Hooker's lifetime. The last three, published posthumously, were not fully completed, and there is debate as to whether he was the sole author of these volumes.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
''The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'' was Hooker’s response to a rift within Protestantism—between Hooker’s Anglicanism and English Puritans agitating for a reform of church government toward the Calvinist model,<ref>Kiefer, "Biographical Sketches of Memorable Christians of the Past."</ref> characterized by an exclusive fidelity to scripture<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s. v. "Richard Hooker."</ref>—and also to what he saw as the Catholic Church’s theological error of elevating "tradition" to the same importance as scripture.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Hooker articulated a three-fold theory of ecclesiastical government that emphasized deference to scripture, followed by church tradition. Where those were inadequate, answers were to be sought in human reason.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
''The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'' has been lauded as the Enlightenment’s "...first glimmering...dawn,"<ref>A. S. McGrade, "Hooker, Richard (1554–1600)".</ref> and profoundly influential upon “...(both directly and through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke Locke]), American political philosophy in the late 1700’s."<ref>Kiefer, "Biographical Sketches of Memorable Christians of the Past."</ref>
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Hooker’s Ecclesiastical polity. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this without naming 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 1723 edition from London based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 3:14-15 [no.2334].</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the London 1723 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, newly rebacked. Signed "F.H. Thornton, Oct. 1912" on the front free endpaper and includes the bookplate of Edward Thornton on the front pastedown. Purchased from Cobnar Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3621021 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:HookerWorks1723Inscription.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front free endpaper.</center>]]
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==External Links==
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Ecclesiastical Law

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===by Richard Burn===
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|vol=volume one
|author=Richard Burn
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, Law-Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for T. Cadell, in the Strand
|year=1781
|edition=Fourth
|lang=English
|set=4
|desc=8vo (22 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burn Richard Burn] (1709–1785) attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_College,_Oxford Queen's College, Oxford], and later became a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace justice of the peace] for Westmoreland and Cumberland counties.<ref>Norma Landau, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4043 Burn, Richard (1709–1785)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed June 7, 2013.</ref> A clergyman of the Church of England, Burn was appointed Chancellor of the diocese of Carlisle in 1762, a post he held until his death.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Burn wrote several books on legal topics. His ''Justice of the Peace'' became the standard in its field, passing through fifteen editions in Burn's lifetime.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:333.</ref> 
 
In ''Ecclesiastical Law'', Burns attempted to categorize and explain elements of ecclesiastical law that had been previously muddy and undefined.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica'', s.v. "[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Burn,_Richard Burn, Richard]" (University of Cambridge, 1911), accessed October 2, 2013.</ref> It was of equal merit and nearly as popular as his ''Justice of the Peace''. "In the preface the author gives a sketch of the history of the civil and canon law, and short accounts of the position of the ecclesiastical law in England after the Restoration, of the common and statute law, and of that part of the jurisdiction of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Chancery court of Chancery] which was exercised by it concurrently with the ecclesiastical courts."<ref>Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', 612.</ref> The ninth and final edition of ''Ecclesiastical Law'' was published in 1842.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Bennie Brown included the fourth edition (1781) of ''Ecclesiastical Law'' in [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 his 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> based on a notation in [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] manuscript library catalog (1770-1812). Jefferson listed "Burn's Ecclesiastical law. 4.v. 8vo. 4th G. Wythe," the name of Wythe being inscribed in pencil. Whether the copy came from Wythe or was loaned to Wythe is unknown. The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased a copy of the fourth edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with tooled edges and banded spines. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473589 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
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Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown

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<big>''A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, or, A System of the Principal Matters Relating to That Subject: Digested Under Their Proper Heads''</big>
===by William Hawkins===
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|vol=volume two
|author=William Hawkins
|edition=Second
|lang=English
|publoc=London
|publisher=In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt (executrix of J. Nutt, assignee of E. Sayer, esp;) for J. Walthoe and J. Walthoe, jun.
|year=1716-1724
|set=2
|desc=Folio (33 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hawkins_(serjeant-at-law) William Hawkins] (1681-1750) was admitted to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Temple Inner Temple] in 1700 or 1701; confusion exists due to another man in the records sharing his name.<ref>Humphry W. Woolrych, ''Lives of Eminent Serjeants-at-Law of the English Bar'' (Wm. H. Allen & Co, 1869), 513.</ref> In 1707 Hawkins was called to the bar. He later served as deputy chief justice of the Brecon circuit in 1719, and in 1724 he advanced to the rank of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serjeant-at-law serjeant-at-law].<ref>J. H. Baker, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/12687 Hawkins, William (1681/2–1750)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed Oct. 12, 2013.</ref> Hawkins began writing on legal matters in 1711. ''A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown'', first published in 1716, represented an advancement in both analysis and in detail when compared to the earlier exposition of English criminal law written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke Sir Edward Coke] (1552-1634).<ref>Ibid.</ref> In addition to this book, Hawkins also edited an abridgment of ''Coke upon Littleton'', and a new edition of the ''Statutes at Large''.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Hawkin's P. C. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. We do not know which edition Wythe owned. 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. Folio editions (in two volumes) were published at London in 1716-21, 1724, 1739 and 1762." Because we don't know which edition Wythe owned, the Wolf Law Library moved a mixed set (volume one, first edition 1716; volume two, second edition, 1724) from another rare book collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Mixed set: volume one is the first edition (1716); volume two is the second edition (1724). Set recently rebound in full maroon with black labels and marbled end papers. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.

View [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/25997 volume one] and [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/554116 volume two] of this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=C-TlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

==References==
<references/>

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

History of the Pleas of the Crown

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===by Sir Matthew Hale===
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|shorttitle=Historia Placitorum Coronæ: The History of the Pleas of the Crown
|commontitle=The History of the Pleas of the Crown
|vol=volume two
|author=Sir Matthew Hale
|edition=First
|lang=English
|publoc=London
|publisher=In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling for F. Gyles
|year=1736
|set=2
|desc=Folio (32 cm.)
}}[[File:HaleHistoriaPlacitorumCoronae1736v1Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale_(jurist) Sir Matthew Hale] (1609- 1676) attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_Inn Lincoln’s Inn] to study the law in the footsteps of his father, who had died when Hale was a very young age.<ref>A. Cromartie, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/11905 Hale, Sir Mathew (b.c 1609 d. in 1676)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> While studying at Lincoln’s Inn, Hale became very close with the attorney general, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Noy William Noy] (d. 1634).<ref>H. Flander, “Sir Matthew Hale,” ''University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register'' 56 (1908), 6.</ref> Noy is believed to have helped shape Hale’s love for medieval transcripts.<ref>Ibid.</ref> This would later lead to Hale’s work on a large amount of legal literature. Hale entered the bar in 1636 after the normal seven years of schooling.<ref>Cromartie, “Hale, Sir Mathew."</ref> In 1671, Sir Matthew Hale became the chief justice of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King%27s_Bench_%28England%29 Court of King’s Bench], a well-deserved role considering the amount of writing he was doing on criminal law as well as the common law.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
''Historia Placitorum Coronæ'', ''The History of the Pleas of the Crown'', is a three-volume work on criminal law that was never completed.<ref>W. S. Holdsworth, “Sir Matthew Hale,” ''Law Quarterly Review'' 39 (1923), 419.</ref> In Hale's plan, the first volume would cover capital offenses and then further split between treasons and felonies; the second volume would consist of non-capital offenses; finally, the third volume would deal with franchises and liberties.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Unfortunately only the first volume was completed, but it was considered almost perfect with many of Hale’s edits complete.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The book was ordered to be published by the House of Commons in 1680 but the first edition only appeared in 1736.<ref>Ibid, 420.</ref> It became "the main authority on English criminal law for a century thereafter" and "provides the structure of Blackstone's ''Commentaries''."<ref>Cromartie, "Hale, Sir Mathew."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe definitely owned a copy of the two-volume 1736 edition of Hale's ''The History of the Pleas of the Crown''. A copy at the University of Virginia ncludes [[George Wythe's bookplate|his bookplate]] and an inscription on the inside front board, "Given by Thos. Jefferson to D. Carr, 1806." Not surprisingly, it is also listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Hale's P.C. 2.v. fol.'', given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. Three of the [[George Wythe Collection|Wythe Collection]] sources (Dean's Memo<ref>Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 4 (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 first edition of ''The History of the Pleas of the Crown''. The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the same edition from the general rare books collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf, rebacked in period style with five raised bands and red title label.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/140797 William & Mary's online catalog.]
===References===
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[[Category:Criminal Law]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Known Surviving Wythe Volumes]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer

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<big>''A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746 in the County of Surry and of Other Crown Cases. To Which are Added Discourses upon a Few Branches of the Crown Law''</big>
===by Sir Michael Foster===
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|shorttitle=A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer
|commontitle=Foster's Crown Law
|author=Sir Michael Foster
|edition=First
|lang=English
|publoc=Oxford
|publisher=Printed at the Clarendon Press, sold by J. Worrall and B. Tovey (London)
|year=1762
|pages=[2], viii, [4], 412, [20]
|desc=Folio (33 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foster_(English_judge) Sir Michael Foster] (1689-1763), the son of an attorney and member of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_College,_Oxford Exeter College, Oxford], was called to the bar by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Temple Middle Temple] in 1713.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:135.</ref> Foster became [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder_%28judge%29 recorder] of Bristol in 1735 and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serjeant-at-law sergeant-at-law] in 1736, and accepted an appointment to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King%27s_Bench_%28England%29 Court of King's Bench] in 1745.<ref>N. G. Jones, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9964 Foster, Sir Michael (1689–1763)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 7 June 2013.</ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Searle_Holdsworth Holdsworth] praises Foster's reports as "the most remarkable and scholarly of all the reports of this period."<ref>Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law,'' 135.</ref> He later expounds "[t]hey are remarkable in form because he appended learned notes to the cases, and added four very able discourses on various points of Crown law" and they are "remarkable in substance by reason of their author's learning, his clarity of expression, and his accuracy of statement."<ref>Ibid, 136.</ref> Another author describes the reports as being "a work of very high authority."<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), 279.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Foster's crown law.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]]. We do not know which edition Wythe owned. 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 1767, third edition based on its existence in Thomas Jefferson's library. [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. Numerous editions were published at Oxford, Dublin and London beginning in 1762." The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the first edition (1762) from another rare book collection to the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Recently rebound in period style. Spine features four bands with gilt rules with green label ''Trial of Rebels''; stamped, "New York University School of Law", on verso of title page. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/56290 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
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[[Category:Criminal Law]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

New Natura Brevium

2014-05-02T19:04:15Z

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===by Anthony Fitzherbert===
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|shorttitle=The New Natura Brevium
|author=Sir Anthony Fitzherbert
|edition=Eighth, carefully revised
|publoc=London (In the Savoy)
|publisher=Printed for Henry Lintot and sold by J. Shuckburgh
|year=1755
|pages=[12], 606, [42]
|lang=English
|desc=4to (27 cm.)
}}''The New Natura Brevium'' was a highly influential treatise on English law first issued in French in 1534 and written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fitzherbert Sir Anthony Fitzherbert] (1470-1538), an English judge, scholar, and "one of the best-known English legal writers of the sixteenth century."<ref>J. H. Baker, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/9602 Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony (c.1470–1538)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 18 Sept 2013.</ref> Frequently cited in judgments for more than two hundred years following its publication,<ref>William Douthwaite, ''Gray’s Inn'' (London: Reeves and Turner, 1886), 46.</ref> ''The New Natura Brevium'' is an important text on 16th century common law. 
 
Fitzherbert had already published ''Magnum Abbreviamentum'', an abridgment of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Books year books],<ref>''Encyclopedia Britannica'', s.v. "Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony."</ref> "a massive digest of 13,845 cases ... arranged under alphabetical headings."<ref>Baker, "Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony."</ref> In 1522, he was made a judge of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Common_Pleas_%28England%29 common pleas] and was knighted, although he continued to write and soon after published three works: one on law, one on agriculture, and one of law and agriculture combined.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
It is for ''The New Natura Brevium'' that Fitzherbert is most well-known. In it he touches on an array of legal issues ranging from the skill and care one is owed by an expert, to the cause of action for a victim of fraud, and the scope of liability for trespasses on land.<ref>Douthwaite, ''Gray’s Inn.''</ref> His analysis was crucial to the development of English common law,<ref>Ibid.</ref> and consequently the foundation of the United States’ legal system.

==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), 11 (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 8th edition (1755) of this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>''The Papers of John Marshall,'' eds. Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:46.</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed their suggestions and purchased the 8th edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in brown buckram; pencil annotations on flyleaf.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/529996 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
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[[Category:Criminal Law]]
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[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiæ

2014-05-02T19:00:46Z

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===by Pliny the Elder===
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|shorttitle=C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiæ.
|vol=volume two
|author=Pliny the Elder
|publoc=Lugd. Batav. & Roterodami
|publisher=Apud Hackios
|year=1668-1669
|lang=Latin with Greek references
|set=3
|pages=[16] 839, [66], 917, [43], 853, [41]
|desc=8vo (21 cm.)
}}[[File:PlinyNaturalisHistoriae1669v1Bookplate.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Bookplate of George Paterson of Castle Huntly, volume one</center>]]Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79 AD), known as Pliny the Elder, was an author, scholar, and statesman of ancient Rome. His most notable work is his 37 volume ''Natural History''.<ref>Jona Lendering, "[http://www.livius.org/pi-pm/pliny/pliny_e3.html Pliny the Elder]," ''Livius: Articles on Ancient History'' (August 2012), accessed October 11, 2013.</ref> Up until Pliny’s time, science had been an area of Greek expertise, but Pliny “Romanized” it.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Pliny was very thorough in his coverage of natural phenomena and approached it from a very stoic point of view. He believed nature was fundamentally good because God created it.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
''Naturalis Historiæ'' is broken into two main sections of eighteen volumes each. The first section describes nature itself, while the second discusses nature’s relation to man.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Pliny the Elder's vast knowledge is attributed to his habit of continuous study by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, in one of his letters. Pliny the younger claimed that his uncle was so diligent that when “In the country his whole time was devoted to study, excepting only when he bathed.”<ref>Marcus Tullius Cicero and Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, ''Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny'', The Harvard Classics 9 (New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909), 233.</ref> Pliny the Elder died in pursuit of scientific knowledge when he decided to investigate the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius (a trip that soon turned to an evacuation of the towns in danger.)<ref>Ibid., 284-288.</ref> Pliny probably succumbed to an asthma attack which was brought on by sulfurous fumes.<ref>Lendering, "Pliny the Elder."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Plinii historia Naturalis. Varior. 3.v. 8vo.'' This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. 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 January 31, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1668-1669 edition published in Leiden based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:458-459 [no.1012].</ref> The volumes owned by Wythe no longer exist to verify the edition, however, the Wolf Law Library purchased the edition recommended by Sowerby.
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</gallery>
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full calf with raised bands. Spines in six panels with morocco title label to second panel, gilt volume number in third, remaining panels with gilt central lozenge and volute corner pieces. Has gilt double rule to covers. Each volume contains the bookplate of George Paterson of Castle Huntley, Esq. on the front pastedown.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3621159 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=ASUTAAAAQAAJ&dq=C.+Plinii+Secundi+Naturalis+Histori%C3%A6+1669&source=gbs_navlinks_s Google Books].

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Philosophical Grammar

2014-05-02T18:51:46Z

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<big>''The Philosophical Grammar: Being a View of the Present State of Experimented Physiology, or Natural Philosophy In Four Parts. Part I. Somatology, ... Part II. Cosmology, ... Part III. Aerology, ... Part IV. Geology, ... : The Whole Extracted from the Writings of the Greatest Naturalists of the Last and Present Age''</big>
===by Benjamin Martin===
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|shorttitle=The Philosophical Grammar
|author=Benjamin Martin
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed for J. Noon
|year=1735
|edition=First
|lang=English
|pages=xxx, [2], 322, [14], XVI folded leaves of plates : ill., maps
|desc=8vo. (21 cm.)
}}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> Into his twenties, Martin started a school in Sussex where he taught a range of subjects, from writing to astronomy.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He even wrote inexpensive textbooks for students, including the fields of mathematics and what could be considered by modern-day standards as physics.<ref>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> 
[[File:MartinPhilosophicalGrammar1735PlateIVp118.jpg |left|thumb|250px|<center>Plate IV</center>]]
Written in 1735, ''The Philosophical Grammar: Being a View of the Present State of Experimented Physiology, or Natural Philosophy in Four Parts'' was Martin's first published work, and showed his dedication to providing an extensive scientific volume at an inexpensive price.<ref>Millburn, "Martin, Benjamin."</ref> Martin discusses numerous topics of natural philosophy including both terrestrial and cosmological subjects, and made the topics so as to be easily understood by students.<ref>Charles Platts, "[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Martin,_Benjamin_(DNB00) Martin, Benjamin]," ''Dictionary of National Biography'' 36, accessed through ''Wikisource'', November 21, 2013.</ref> The book underwent 6 reprints in a 40 year period, was translated into 3 other languages, and is considered to be his most successful publication.<ref>Millburn, "Martin, Benjamin."</ref> 
 
Martin went on to publish a number of other works, and started delving into inventing and improving instruments such as microscopes and globes.<ref>Millburn, "The London Evening Courses of Benjamin Martin and James Ferguson," 439.</ref> He even became well known for the design and building of spectacles.<ref>Millburn, "Martin, Benjamin."</ref> Martin eventually shied away from his teacher role and took on a more adult-focused lecture career. He published a monthly magazine while continually inventing and opening a shop.<ref>Millburn, "The London Evening Courses of Benjamin Martin and James Ferguson," 439.</ref> Although he saw business success early on his his career, he unfortunately did not maintain the business acumen later in his life and declared bankruptcy a month before his death in 1782.<ref>Millburn, "Martin, Benjamin (bap. 1705, d. 1782)."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Martin’s Philosophical grammar. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Octavo editions were published at London in 1735, 1738, 1748, 1753, 1755, 1762, 1769, and 1778." 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 second London edition published in 1759 based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:30 [no.3726].</ref> The Wolf Law Library chose to purchase the 1735 (first) edition.
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==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full calf and rebacked in leather. Pages are white, bright, unmarked and unfoxed. The front pastedown has the bookplate of the Earl of Roden; the bookplate of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Chase is on the front fly-leaf. Purchased from Adams & Adams Booksellers.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3465165 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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==External Links==
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Hippocratis Aphorismi

2014-05-02T18:49:30Z

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<big>''Hippokratous Aphorismoi = Hippocratis Aphorismi: Hippocratis et Celsi Locis Parallelis Illustrati''</big>
===by Hippocrates===
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|shorttitle=Hippocratis Aphorismi
|author=Hippocrates
|trans=Lucas Verhoofd
|publoc=Parisiis
|publisher=Apud Theophilium Barrois Juniorem
|year=1784
|lang=Greek and Latin on opposite pages
|pages=xx, 353
|desc=12mo. (13 cm.)
}}[[File:Hippocrates_HippocratisAphorismi1784PrinterFlourish2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Printer's flourish, page 134</center>]]The physician Hippocrates of Cos lived sometime between 450 BCE to 380 BCE and is traditionally regarded as the father of medicine.<ref>''The New Encyclopaedia Britannica'', s.v. "Hippocrates," (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Brtannica, Inc, 2007), 5:939.</ref> "The writings of the ''Corpus Hippocraticum'' provide a wealth of information on biomedical methodology and offer one of the first reflective codes of professional ethics."<ref>''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', s.v. "[http://www.iep.utm.edu/hippocra/ Hippocrates]," accessed October 30, 2013.</ref> The writings were most likely composed by multiple men; even the "Hippocratic Oath" is believed to be the work of someone other than Hippocrates.<ref>''The New Encyclopaedia Britannica'', s.v. "Hippocrates."</ref> Both Plato and Aristotle specifically mention Hippocrates in their own works and he was regarded as "a great physician who exercised a permanent influence on the development of medicine and on the ideals and ethics of the physician."<ref>''Britannica Concise Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/ebconcise/hippocrates Hippocrates]," accessed November 11, 2013.</ref> Regarding the ''Corpus Hippocraticum'', "[o]n the biomedical methodology side, these writings provide the most detailed biomedical observations to date in the Western world. They also offer causal speculations that can be knitted together to form a theoretical framework for diagnosis and treatment. On the ethical side, their code of professional ethics is so well structured that it continues to stand as a model for other professions."<ref>''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', "Hippocrates".</ref>

Within the ''Corpus Hippocraticum'', the ''Aphorismi'', is "a collection of 412 short counsels regarding diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment."<ref>''The New Encyclopaedia Britannica'', s.v. "Hippocrates."</ref> The term "aphorism" was first used in connection with the work of Hippocrates.<ref>''The New Encyclopaedia Britannica'', s.v. "Aphorism," (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Brtannica, Inc, 2007), 1:481.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed on the [[Jefferson Inventory]] as ''Hippocratis Aphorismata. p.f.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Aphorisms of Hypocrates' ($3.75 value)." We cannot determine the precise edition Wythe owned from the information available. 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 a 1736 octavo edition published in Edinburgh. [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 includes no specific edition and indicates "Probably a portion of the work only. Precise edition unknown." The 12-centimeter, 1784 edition chosen by the Wolf Law Library is a good potential candidate as it corresponds to Jefferson's indicated size of "p.f." (petit folio).
[[File:Hippocrates_HippocratisAphorismi1784HeadpieceGreek.jpg|center|thumb|350px|<center>Headpiece, first page of Greek text</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in red morocco, covers with three gilt rules around the sides, edges and turn-ins gilt. Spine has triple rules dividing the panels which are decorated in gilt and a black gilt label. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3684478 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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==External Links==
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Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy

2014-05-02T18:47:50Z

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===by Richard Helsham===
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|shorttitle=A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy
|author=Richard Helsham
|publoc=London
|publisher=Published by Bryan Robinson, printed by J. Nourse
|year=1739
|edition=First
|lang=English
|pages=viii, 404 : 11 folded plates
|desc=8vo. (21 cm.)
}}Richard Helsham (1683–1738), physician and natural philosopher, was born outside of Kilkenny, Ireland. After attending the University in his hometown, Helsham left to advance his education, eventually receiving a medical degree and a formal appointment at Trinity College, Dublin. Here as the college's first professor of natural philosophy,<ref>H. T. Welch, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12877 Helsham, Richard (1683–1738)’]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed Oct. 6, 2013.</ref> he worked for eight years to create one of the first ever institutionalized science laboratories and courses of study.<ref>''Ask About Ireland'', s.v. "[http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/science-technology/irish-scientists/helsham-richard/ Helsham, Richard]," accessed Oct. 5, 2013.</ref> 
 
[[File:HelshamCourseOfLecturesInNaturalPhilosophy1739Plate7.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Plate 7</center>]]
Inspired by Descartes, and more directly Newton, Helsham's ''A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy'' covers a broad range of topics, as well as the nature of causation and experimentation in the sciences.<ref>Richard Helsham, ''A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy'', 4th ed., ed. Bryan Robinson, M.D. (London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1767).</ref> Edited posthumously by Bryan Robinson, a former student and colleague, "it was one of the earliest textbooks to present the scientific discoveries of Bacon, Descartes, Boyle, and Newton to university students in an understandable manner."<ref>Welch, "Helsham, Richard."</ref> The volume is divided into twenty-three chapters that discuss the physics of light, color, sound, motion, friction, and simple machines such as pulleys and levers.<ref>Helsham, ''A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy''</ref> "The book had an enduring popularity"<ref>Welch, "Helsham, Richard."</ref> and was well-known as one of the most comprehensive discourses on the subject of natural philosophy until years later when the term “scientist” would enter the public vernacular and inspire a series of texts on similar subjects extending their focus into the more complex physics that would drive the industrial revolution.<ref>Laura Snyder, ''The Philosophical Breakfast Club'' (TED, 2012).</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Helsham’s lectures. 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Several octavo editions were published, the first in 1739." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the London 3rd edition published in 1755 based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:35 [no.3736].</ref> The Wolf Law Library chose to purchase the first (1739) edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Full bound in contemporary etched calf with a red morocco spine label and compartments tooled in gold. Purchased from Black Swan Books, Inc. 
 
Find this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3431857 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=TA45AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books].

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History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

2014-05-02T18:46:56Z

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===by Oliver Goldsmith===
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|shorttitle=An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature
|vol=volume four
|ed=First American
|author=Oliver Goldsmith
|lang=English
|publoc=Philadelphia
|publisher=Printed for Mathew Carey
|year=1795
|set=4
|desc=8vo. (22 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith] (1728?-1774) was an early 17th century Irish playwright and novelist whose exact birthplace and date are still disputed.<ref>John A. Dussinger, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/10924 Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?–1774)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed 6 Oct 2013.</ref> After an unsuccessful medical career, Goldsmith turned his hand to writing. His most famous works include the 1773 novel ''The Vicar of Wakefield'', and the play, ''She Stoops to Conquer'', written in 1766 and first performed in 1773. Despite his literary fame and success, Goldsmith struggled financially throughout until his death.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
[[File:GoldsmithHistoryOfAnimatedNature1795v4Illustration51.jpg |left|thumb|450px|<center>Plate 51, volume 4</center>]]
Towards the end of his life, Goldsmith became fascinated with the environment and sought to create a definitive text chronicling biological life on the planet.<ref>Dickinson College website, s.v. "[http://users.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/goldsmith.htm Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74)]," accessed October 5, 2013.</ref> ''An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature'' was known not only for the breadth of information about wildlife of all kinds, but also for its early distinction between the types of sciences. Early in the text Goldsmith carefully delineates the realms of general and material physics, as well as the role of nature and natural law, while speaking dismissively of a Supreme Being.<ref>Oliver Goldsmith, ''A History of Earth and Animated Nature'' (London: Printed for J. Nourse 1774).</ref> In a main thematic piece that stretches through all eight volumes of the work, Goldsmith, a notable naturalist, exposes serious flaws within the naturalist position; he reveals the loose boundary between the most sensitive of plants and the most stationary and unresponsive of animals, and criticizes the popular notion of a well defined hierarchy in favor of a more loose continuum of sentient life.<ref>Dickinson College website, s.v. "Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74)."</ref>
[[File:GoldsmithHistoryOfAnimatedNature1795v4Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front blank, volume 4</center>]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Goldsmith’s Animated Nature. 4.v. 8vo.'' This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. 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 November 11, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the first American edition (1795) based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:467 [no.1026].</ref> The volumes no longer exist to verify the edition, nevertheless, the Wolf Law Library's [[George Wythe Collection]] includes the edition recommended by Sowerby.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in quarter-calf and marbled boards. Volumes one, two and four inscribed "Zephaniah Knopfe, Book Bought of C. Conrad Price $2.50" on a front blank. Volume four includes the additional inscription "E. Smith's, 1854." Purchased from B&L Rootenberg Rare Books. 
 
Find this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/564136 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
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==External Links==
Read volume II from the [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t5w66b55c;view=1up;seq=7 Hathi Trust]. 
Read volume III from the [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t7cr5pg3m;view=1up;seq=7 Hathi Trust]. 
Read volume IV from the [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t84j0c403;view=1up;seq=5 Hathi Trust]. 

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Medical Commentary on Fixed Air

2014-05-02T18:45:11Z

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===by Matthew Dobson===
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|author=Matthew Dobson
|editor=William Falconer
|edition=Third
|lang=English
|publoc=London
|publisher=T. Cadell
|year=1787
|pages=vii, 172
|desc=8vo. (22 cm.)
}}''A Medical Commentary on Fixed Air'', first published in 1779, was written by English physician, experimental physiologist, and natural philosopher Matthew Dobson (1732-1784). Born to parents who were both ministers, Dobson attended Glasgow University for his M.A., and then attended medical school at Edinburgh University.<ref>Margaret DeLacy, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/55275 Dobson, Matthew (1732–1784), physician and natural philosopher]," in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed November 6, 2013.</ref> After graduating with his M.D. in 1756, he married translator and writer Susannah Dawson, and moved to Liverpool where he worked as a doctor.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1769, Dobson worked with physician colleague Matthew Turner to establish the Liverpool Academy of Art.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Dobson found much success in his life as a physician, being appointed to the Liverpool Infirmary (1770), elected Fellow of the Royal Society (1778), and, near the end of his career, named head of the Liverpool Medical Library (1779).<ref>''The Royal Society Fellowship Collections Database'', s.v. "[http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=7&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27Dobson%27%29 Dobson, Matthew (- 1784)]," accessed November 18, 2013.</ref>

As a physician, Dobson had delved into many areas of medical research, including diabetes (he was credited with the discovery that diabetic patients had sugar in their urine), heat treatments, and kidney stones.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ''A Medical Commentary on Fixed Air'' advocated the use of carbon dioxide, or "fixed air," as an external disinfectant against putrid diseases.<ref>Jan Golinski, ''Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 111.</ref> In the book, Dobson describes the process of putrefaction, where all organisms — including humans — are eventually reduced down to their elements after death.<ref>Christine Hallett, "[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1088248/ The Attempt to Understand Puerperal Fever in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: The Influence of Inflammation Theory]," ''Medical History'' 49, no. 1 (2005), accessed November 14, 2013.</ref> He also believed that nature was a system that functioned on its own without divine intervention.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ''A Medical Commentary on Fixed Air'' showcases Dobson's fascination with the human body, and goes beyond describing the body's simple mechanistic function by taking on complex physiology.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Dobson’s Commentary on fixed air. 8vo.'' This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. [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 indicates "Precise edition unknown. Octavo editions were published at Chester in 1779; London in 1785 and 1787; and Dublin in 1785 and 1790." 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 1787 (3rd) London edition, based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:386 [no.843].</ref> This edition includes ''An Appendix on the Efficacy of the Solution of Fixed Alkaline Salts Saturated with Flexible Air'' by William Falconer. Jefferson's copy no longer exists to conclusively verify the edition, however, the Wolf Law Library did choose to purchase the edition suggested by Sowerby.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in modern half calf. Purchased from David and Lynn Smith.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3639069 William & Mary's online catalog].
==References==
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Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning

2014-05-02T18:39:27Z

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<big>''Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, or, The Partitions of Sciences, IX Bookes''</big>
===by Francis Bacon===
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|shorttitle=Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning
|author=Francis Bacon
|lang=English
|publoc=Oxford
|publisher=Printed by Leon. Lichfield for Rob. Young & Ed. Forrest
|year=1640
|pages=[36], 60, [14], 477 [i.e. 479, 23] p. (the last leaf blank), [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. (engraving)
|desc=folio (29 cm.)
}}''Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, or, The Partitions of Sciences, IX Bookes'' (commonly known as ''The Advancement of Learning'') is a two-volume work by English philosopher, politician, scientist, and author, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_bacon Francis Bacon], Viscount St. Alban (1561–1626). Born in London to Sir Nicholas Bacon and Lady Anne Cooke, Bacon received his early education from his well-educated parents at home, and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge and Gray's Inn, London.<ref>Jürgen Klein "[http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/francis-bacon Francis Bacon]," in ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (Stanford University, 1997-), article revised Dec. 7, 2012, accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> 
[[File:BaconOfTheAdvancement1640Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece</center>]]
''The Advancement of Learning'', written in 1605, is one of Bacon's earliest works. Within these two books, Bacon delves into the study and acquisition of knowledge.<ref>Markku Peltonen, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/990 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626)]," in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004-), accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> The first book focuses on learning and its importance in every day life. The second book has a much broader scope, covering the state of human knowledge, discovering its weak spots and offering broad suggestions on how it can be improved.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
After he wrote the book, Bacon's political career gained steam. He quickly rose in power, becoming successively solicitor general (1607), attorney general (1613), and lord chancellor (1618).<ref>''Britannica Concise Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/ebconcise/bacon_francis_viscount_st_albans Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> He also authored numerous other volumes, including the influential ''Novum Organum'' (1620) and ''History of Henry VII'' (1622).<ref>Ibid.</ref> An edition of his collected [[Works of Francis Bacon|works]], gathered by A. Millar, was first published in 1640.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Bacon’s advancement of learning. p. fol. Eng.'' This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. 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 November 11, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1674 (2nd) edition, based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:167-168 [no. 4916].</ref> The volumes owned by Wythe no longer exist to verify the edition, although Sowerby bases her choice on the previous correction of a date "1670" to "1674" from the Library of Congress catalogs. While it may be more likely that Wythe owned the 1674 edition, the date "1670" could also have meant "1640." The Wolf Law Library's [[George Wythe Collection]] includes the 1640, first edition, based in part on this ambiguity and in part on the availability of editions for purchase.
[[File:BaconOfTheAdvancement1640inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front fly-leaf</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary blind-stamped calf with engraved frontispiece and engraved title leaf. This copy has the first version of the frontispiece, signed by William Marshall and dated 1626. Inscribed on the front fly-leaf, "Thomas Smith, 1794." Purchased from Bookpress, Ltd. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3431858 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

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Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson

2014-05-02T18:37:57Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson''}}
<big>''The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Two Hundred Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions: to Which are Annexed Prayers Composed by Him for His Own Use, a Discourse to His Servants Before the Sacrament, and a Form of Prayer Composed by Him, for the Use of King William: Being All That were Printed after His Grace's Decease: Now Collected into Two Volumes: Together with Tables to the Whole: One, of the Texts Preached Upon; Another of the Places of Scripture, Occasionally Explain'd; a Third, an Alphabetical Table of Matter''</big>
===by John Tillotson===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tillotson Dr. John Tillotson] (1630-1694) was born in Yorkshire and educated at the University of Cambridge.<ref>Isabel Rivers, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/27449 Tillotson, John (1630–1694)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> Brought up in a Puritan household, Tillotson abandoned the Calvinism of his father fairly early in adulthood. He was a devout Protestant who opposed Catholicism but regarded non-conformist Protestants sympathetically.<ref>''Who's Who in Christianity'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/routwwchr/tillotson_john_1630_1694 Tillotson, John (1630 - 1694)]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> During his career he served in multiple positions, including chaplain to Charles II, dean of Canterbury, canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, and finally [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury Archbishop of Canterbury].<ref>''The Hutchinson Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/heliconhe/tillotson_john_robert Tillotson, John Robert]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> 
 
''The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson]'' (1630-1694) contains two hundred of his sermons, discourses, and prayers.<ref>Isabel Rivers, "Tillotson, John."</ref>Tillotson was very influential amongst his colleagues; sermons by Laurence Sterne, James Woodforde, and others borrowed heavily from his works.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Some clergyman went so far as to directly present Tillotson's sermons in lieu of their own.<ref>''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/cupliteng/tillotson_john_1630_1694 Tillotson, John (1630 - 1694)]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> He was even cited in dictionaries, with one particular lexicographer citing his works over one thousand times.<ref>Isabel Rivers, "Tillotson, John."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Tillotson’s works. 2.v. fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Tillotson's discourses' (6[?] vols., $6.00 value)." We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on November 18, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Two-volume folio editions were published at London in 1712, 1717, and 1722." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the first (1712) edition published in London. Because we do not know which edition owned, and because not all editions were available for purchase, the Wolf Law Library acquired a copy of the third (1722) edition.
[[File:TillotsonWorks1722V1Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full tan leather with five raised bands, decoration and gilt lettering to spines. Each volume contains an unnamed armorial bookplate with the motto "Favente Deo" (with God's favor) on the front pastedown. Volume one includes the inscription "E libris Saml. Horner, e Coll. Eton(?) Oxon, Septr. 3d 1756, ex bono, Susanna Clarke" on the front flyleaf. Purchased from Ely Books. 
 
Find this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3739615 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

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

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Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson

2014-05-02T18:35:45Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson''}}
<big>''The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Two Hundred Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions: to Which are Annexed Prayers Composed by Him for His Own Use, a Discourse to His Servants Before the Sacrament, and a Form of Prayer Composed by Him, for the Use of King William: Being All That were Printed after His Grace's Decease: Now Collected into Two Volumes: Together with Tables to the Whole: One, of the Texts Preached Upon; Another of the Places of Scripture, Occasionally Explain'd; a Third, an Alphabetical Table of Matter''</big>
===by John Tillotson===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tillotson Dr. John Tillotson] (1630-1694) was born in Yorkshire and educated at the University of Cambridge.<ref>Isabel Rivers, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/27449 Tillotson, John (1630–1694)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> Brought up in a Puritan household, Tillotson abandoned the Calvinism of his father fairly early in adulthood. He was a devout Protestant who opposed Catholicism but regarded non-conformist Protestants sympathetically.<ref>''Who's Who in Christianity'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/routwwchr/tillotson_john_1630_1694 Tillotson, John (1630 - 1694)]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> During his career he served in multiple positions, including chaplain to Charles II, dean of Canterbury, canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, and finally [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury Archbishop of Canterbury].<ref>''The Hutchinson Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/heliconhe/tillotson_john_robert Tillotson, John Robert]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> 
 
''The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson]'' (1630-1694) contains two hundred of his sermons, discourses, and prayers.<ref>Isabel Rivers, "Tillotson, John."</ref>Tillotson was very influential amongst his colleagues; sermons by Laurence Sterne, James Woodforde, and others borrowed heavily from his works.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Some clergyman went so far as to directly present Tillotson's sermons in lieu of their own.<ref>''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/cupliteng/tillotson_john_1630_1694 Tillotson, John (1630 - 1694)]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> He was even cited in dictionaries, with one particular lexicographer citing his works over one thousand times.<ref>Isabel Rivers, "Tillotson, John."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Tillotson’s works. 2.v. fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Tillotson's discourses' (6[?] vols., $6.00 value)." We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on November 18, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this, adding "Two-volume folio editions were published at London in 1712, 1717, and 1722." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the first (1712) edition published in London. Because we do not know which edition owned, and because not all editions were available for purchase, the Wolf Law Library acquired a copy of the third (1722) edition.
[[File:TillotsonWorks1722V1Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full tan leather with five raised bands, decoration and gilt lettering to spines. Each volume contains an unnamed armorial bookplate with the motto "Favente Deo" (with God's favor) on the front pastedown. Volume one includes the inscription "E libris Saml. Horner, e Coll. Eton(?) Oxon, Septr. 3d 1756, ex bono, Susanna Clarke" on the front flyleaf. Purchased from Ely Books. 
 
Find this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3739615 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

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

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

New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

2014-05-02T18:33:25Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''A New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ''}}
<big>''A New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: From His Birth, to the Establishment of Christianity: with Answers to Most of the Controverted Questions, Dissertations upon the Most Remarkable Passages, and a Connection of Profane History All Along: to Which are Added, Notes Explaining Difficult Texts, Rectifying Mis-translations, and Reconciling Seeming Contradictions: the Whole Illustrated with Proper Maps''</big>
===by Thomas Stackhouse===
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|vol=volume one
|author=Thomas Stackhouse
|publoc=Edinburgh
|publisher=Printed by Sands, Murray, and Cochran for James Meuros, bookseller in Kilmarnock
|year=1765
|lang=English
|set=2
|desc=8vo (22 cm.)
}}English religious writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stackhouse Thomas Stackhouse] (1681/2–1752) was born at Witton-le-Wear, a small village in County Durham, England, in approximately 1680.<ref>Scott Mandelbrote, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/26197 Stackhouse, Thomas (1681/2–1752)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed Oct. 11, 2013.</ref> Later educated at St. John’s College in Cambridge, Stackhouse served as the headmaster of a grammar school in Hexham until being ordained a priest in 1704.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He served as minister of the English church in Amsterdam from 1713.<ref>David Nash Ford, "[http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/tstackhouse.html Thomas Stackhouse (1677–1752)]," ''Royal Berkshire History'' website (Nash Ford Publishing, 2004- ), accessed October 11, 2013.</ref> Despite this appointment, Stackhouse lived in poverty for some time until assuming in 1733 the vicarage of Marsh Benham, Berkshire.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Stackhouse had some success supplementing his sparse earnings from the church with paid work for booksellers.<ref>Mandelbrote, "Stackhouse, Thomas."</ref> After a quarrel with a bookseller left him without a publisher for what is now one of his most recognizable works, ''[[New History of the Holy Bible|A New History of the Holy Bible]]'', Stackhouse published the text himself in 1733.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Early editions included the history of the New Testament as part of the text. In some later editions, such as the 1765 London edition owned by [[George Wythe]], the New Testament portion was published separately as ''A New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.'' 
 
Illustrated with maps and plates and written in an accessible style for wide reading, ''A New History of the Holy Bible'' and ''A New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ'' had great success as a reliable works of reference. Both during his life and posthumously, Stackhouse’s historical works were frequently reprinted, and his biblical and doctrinal writings reached a wide audience, both in England and abroad.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[Thomas Jefferson]] listed "Stackhouse's history of the Bible. 5.v. 8vo." in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]], noting that he kept the set himself. He later sold a combined, six-volume set of ''A New History of the Holy Bible'' (1767-four volumes) and ''A New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ'' (1765-two volumes) by Stackhouse to the Library of Congress. The set still exists and contains manuscript notes in English and Greek attributed to Wythe.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:293 [no.620].</ref> Both Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on February 22, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing include the Library of Congress set as Wythe's former copy. The Wolf Law Library purchased copies of the 1765 and 1767 editions for the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf. Spine features raised bands, contrasting red and black morocco labels with gilt tooling and lettering. Set accompanies by Stackhouse's 1767 publication, ''[[New History of the Holy Bible|A New History of the Holy Bible]]'' as volumes five and six.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/3739684 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:StackhouseHistory1765v1Illustration2.jpg|center|thumb|350px|<center>Herod's cruely, volume one, page 56.</center>]]

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

New History of the Holy Bible

2014-05-02T18:30:24Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''A New History of the Holy Bible''}}
<big>''A New History of the Holy Bible: From the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity, with Answers to Most of the Controverted Questions, Dissertations upon the Most Remarkable Passages, and a Connection of Profane History All Along: to which are added, Notes Explaining Difficult Texts, Rectifying Mistranslations, and Reconciling Seeming Contradictions: the Whole Illustrated with Proper Maps and Sculptures ''</big>
===by Thomas Stackhouse===
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|author=Thomas Stackhouse
|lang=English
|publoc=Edinburgh
|publisher=Printed for Alex. Donaldson, and John Wood, and for James Meuros, bookseller in Kilmamock
|year=1767
|set=4
|desc=8vo (21 cm.)
}}[[File:StackhouseNewHistoryOfTheOldTestament1767v1Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Stackhouse.</center>]]English religious writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stackhouse Thomas Stackhouse] (1681/2–1752) was born at Witton-le-Wear, a small village in County Durham, England, in approximately 1680.<ref>Scott Mandelbrote, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/26197 Stackhouse, Thomas (1681/2–1752)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed Oct. 11, 2013.</ref> Later educated at St. John’s College in Cambridge, Stackhouse served as the headmaster of a grammar school in Hexham until being ordained a priest in 1704.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He served as minister of the English church in Amsterdam from 1713.<ref>David Nash Ford, "[http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/tstackhouse.html Thomas Stackhouse (1677–1752)]," ''Royal Berkshire History'' website (Nash Ford Publishing, 2004- ), accessed October 11, 2013.</ref> Despite this appointment, Stackhouse lived in poverty for some time until assuming in 1733 the vicarage of Marsh Benham, Berkshire.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Stackhouse had some success supplementing his sparse earnings from the church with paid work for booksellers.<ref>Mandelbrote, "Stackhouse, Thomas."</ref> After a quarrel with a bookseller left him without a publisher for what is now one of his most recognizable works, ''A New History of the Holy Bible'', Stackhouse published the text himself in 1733.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Illustrated with maps and plates and written in an accessible style for wide reading, ''A New History of the Holy Bible'' had great success as a reliable work of reference. “Being rather too fond of a drink,” tradition says that Stackhouse wrote ''A New History'' at the Three Kings - Jack's Booth pub in Sulhamstead.<ref>Nash Ford, "Thomas Stackhouse."</ref> Both during his life and posthumously, Stackhouse’s historical works were frequently reprinted, and his biblical and doctrinal writings reached a wide audience, both in England and abroad.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[Thomas Jefferson]] listed "Stackhouse's history of the Bible. 5.v. 8vo." in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]], noting that he kept the set himself. He later sold a combined, six-volume set of ''A New History of the Holy Bible'' (1767-four volumes) and ''[[New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ|A New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ]]'' (1765-two volumes) by Stackhouse to the Library of Congress. The set still exists and contains manuscript notes in English and Greek attributed to Wythe.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:293 [no.620].</ref> Both Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on February 22, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing include the Library of Congress set as Wythe's former copy. The Wolf Law Library purchased copies of the 1765 and 1767 editions for the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf. Spine features raised bands, contrasting red and black morocco labels with gilt tooling and lettering. Set accompanied by Stackhouse's 1765 publication, ''[[New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ|A New History of the New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ]]'' as volumes five and six. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3705346 William & Mary's online catalog.]
[[File:StackhouseNewHistory1765v1Illustration1.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Pyramids of Egypt, volume two, page 357.</center>]]
[[File:StackhouseHistory1765v4Illustration2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Jonah cast into the sea, volume four, page 189.</center>]]

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read volume two of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=7J9UAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England

2014-05-02T18:28:50Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England''}}
<big>''A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, with Collects and Prayers for Each Solemnity''</big>
===by Robert Nelson===
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|author=Robert Nelson
|edition=Eleventh
|lang=English
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed by W. Bowyer for R. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, B. Tooke, R. Wilkin, R. Smith, and T. Ward
|year=1720
|pages=xxii, [4], 636, [16]
|desc=8vo (20 cm.)
}}[[File:NelsonCompanion1720Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Illustration of the stoning of Stephen.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nelson_%28nonjuror%29 Robert Nelson] (1656–1715) was a London-born religious writer and philanthropist. The catechism, as the title suggests, provides an account of a particular saint for every day of feast and fast found in the ''Book of Common Prayer'' in 1622. Appropriate prayers, and a homily on which aspects of Christian life were associated with the particular festival or fast, followed each entry. The catechism was widely disseminated even outside of England—there were more than forty editions— and it was used by the clergy for sermon ideas on holy days.<ref>Alan Cook, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19883 Nelson, Robert (1656–1715)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed 11 Nov 2013.</ref> "It is firmly of its time. Biblical criticism and historical study of the lives of saints have made some of the material out of date, while the ethical and moral precepts reflect the social and political presuppositions of Nelson's day."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe purchased "Nelson's Festivals" from the Williamsburg Printing Office for 12/6 in 1764.<ref>''The Virginia Gazette Daybooks, 1750-1752 & 1764-1766'', ed. Paul P. Hoffman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1967).</ref> All four of the Wythe Collection sources (Goodwin<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings'' (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), LII. Available at http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml</ref>, [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 8 (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 this title. Dean suggests the 1704 edition, while the other three sources list the 1720 edition based on the copy [[Thomas Jefferson]] sold to the Library of Congress in 1815.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:163 [no.1636].</ref> The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1720 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in early full leather with ink signature of "John Champion" at the top of the title page. Purchased from Appleford Bookroom. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3695140 William & Mary's online catalog].
==References==
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[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
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[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England

2014-05-02T18:27:28Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England''}}
<big>''A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, with Collects and Prayers for Each Solemnity''</big>
===by Robert Nelson===
__NOTOC__
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|edition=Eleventh
|lang=English
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed by W. Bowyer for R. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, B. Tooke, R. Wilkin, R. Smith, and T. Ward
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}}[[File:NelsonCompanion1720Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Illustration of the stoning of Stephen.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nelson_%28nonjuror%29 Robert Nelson] (1656–1715) was a London-born religious writer and philanthropist. The catechism, as the title suggests, provides an account of a particular saint for every day of feast and fast found in the ''Book of Common Prayer'' in 1622. Appropriate prayers, and a homily on which aspects of Christian life were associated with the particular festival or fast, followed each entry. The catechism was widely disseminated even outside of England—there were more than forty editions— and it was used by the clergy for sermon ideas on holy days.<ref>Alan Cook, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19883 Nelson, Robert (1656–1715)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed 11 Nov 2013.</ref> "It is firmly of its time. Biblical criticism and historical study of the lives of saints have made some of the material out of date, while the ethical and moral precepts reflect the social and political presuppositions of Nelson's day."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Wythe purchased "Nelson's Festivals" from the Williamsburg Printing Office for 12/6 in 1764.<ref>''The Virginia Gazette Daybooks, 1750-1752 & 1764-1766'', ed. Paul P. Hoffman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1967).</ref> All four of the Wythe Collection sources (Goodwin<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings'' (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), LII. Available at http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml</ref>, [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 8 (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 this title. Dean suggests the 1704 edition, while the other three sources list the 1720 edition based on the copy [[Thomas Jefferson]] sold to the Library of Congress in 1815.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:163 [no.1636].</ref> The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1720 edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in early full leather with ink signature of "John Champion" at the top of the title page. Purchased from Appleford Bookroom. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3695140 William & Mary's online catalog].
==References==
<references/>

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

De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum

2014-05-02T18:26:23Z

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<big>''De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum: Prælectiones Academiæ Oxonii Habitæ''</big>
===by Robert Lowth===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowth Robert Lowth] (1710-1787) was born in Winchester, England. He attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_College Winchester College] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Oxford St. John’s College] in Oxford, and was admitted as a scholar at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College,_Oxford New College] before becoming a fellow. Lowth gained recognition for his poems in both English and Latin very early in life. In 1741, he was elected a professor of poetry at Oxford, and served for ten years. He focused on religious poetry, looking into “divinely inspired” Hebrew verses and creating new methods for reading and understanding the religious passages of verse.<ref>Scott Mandelbrote, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17104 Lowth, Robert (1710–1787)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed Oct. 7, 2013.</ref> 
[[File:LowthDeSacraPoesiHebraeorum1763Psalm19.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Psalm 19, verses 7-10, in Hebrew and Latin.</center> ''The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.''<ref>"[http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-Chapter-19/ Psalm 19]" in ''The Official King James Version Online'', accessed March 18, 2014.</ref>]]
Ordained in 1742, Lowth served as a priest and a chaplain before being appointed a royal chaplain in 1757. In 1766, he was consecrated as Bishop of St. David’s before being nominated and confirmed as Bishop of London.<ref>Mandelbrote, “Lowth, Robert."</ref> Lowth later declined to accept the position of Archbishop of Canterbury.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/350052/Robert-Lowth Robert Lowth]," accessed October 04, 2013.</ref> Lowth preached frequently, often on the need for godly administration within the church. As bishop, he was known for his eradication of “abuses of the clergy in political and financial matters.”<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Lowth's ''De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum'' derived from his lectures at Oxford. First published in 1753, the work helped "to expand and define the canon of biblical poetry."<ref>Mandelbrote, “Lowth, Robert."</ref> In it,
<blockquote>"Lowth urged the importance of setting biblical poetry in the context of oriental rather than classical style and the impossibility of ever determining the ancient vocalization of the Hebrew Bible with sufficient accuracy to identify its true metrical structure. In place of metre Lowth argued that the structure of Hebrew verse could be identified by its often parabolic or figurative mode of expression, and in particular by the parallelisms, or repetitions of similar words or phrases, sometimes in a regular order, sometimes not, that gave rhythm to Hebrew poetry and song, and served almost as an alternative to metre. Using these critical tools Lowth also tried to identify a sublime, and divinely inspired, quality in Hebrew verse."<ref>Ibid.</ref></blockquote>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[Thomas Jefferson]] listed "Lowth de Poesi Hebraeorum. 8vo" in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]], noting that he kept the volume himself. He later sold a copy to the Library of Congress but it no longer exists to verify the edition or Wythe's previous ownership. 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> notes the 1763 edition based on E. Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:44 [no.4710].</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 February 22, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates the 1763 edition as the "probable" edition. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full polished calf with decorative gilt spine and leather label. Edges of boards also feature gilt design. Inscribed "Tho. Duresme" on the front pastedown. 
 
Find this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3674696 William & Mary's online catalog].
[[File:LowthDeSacraPoesiHebraeorum1763Inscription.jpg|center|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front pastedown.</center>]]
==References==
<references/>

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

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De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum

2014-05-02T18:25:42Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''De Sacra poesi Hebræorum''}}
<big>''De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum: Prælectiones Academiæ Oxonii Habitæ''</big>
===by Robert Lowth===
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowth Robert Lowth] (1710-1787) was born in Winchester, England. He attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_College Winchester College] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Oxford St. John’s College] in Oxford, and was admitted as a scholar at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College,_Oxford New College] before becoming a fellow. Lowth gained recognition for his poems in both English and Latin very early in life. In 1741, he was elected a professor of poetry at Oxford, and served for ten years. He focused on religious poetry, looking into “divinely inspired” Hebrew verses and creating new methods for reading and understanding the religious passages of verse.<ref>Scott Mandelbrote, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17104 Lowth, Robert (1710–1787)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed Oct. 7, 2013.</ref> 
[[File:LowthDeSacraPoesiHebraeorum1763Psalm19.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Psalm 19, verses 7-10, in Hebrew and Latin.</center> ''The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.''<ref>"[http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-Chapter-19/ Psalm 19]" in ''The Official King James Version Online'', accessed March 18, 2014.</ref>]]
Ordained in 1742, Lowth served as a priest and a chaplain before being appointed a royal chaplain in 1757. In 1766, he was consecrated as Bishop of St. David’s before being nominated and confirmed as Bishop of London.<ref>Mandelbrote, “Lowth, Robert."</ref> Lowth later declined to accept the position of Archbishop of Canterbury.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s. v. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/350052/Robert-Lowth Robert Lowth]," accessed October 04, 2013.</ref> Lowth preached frequently, often on the need for godly administration within the church. As bishop, he was known for his eradication of “abuses of the clergy in political and financial matters.”<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Lowth's ''De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum'' derived from his lectures at Oxford. First published in 1753, the work helped "to expand and define the canon of biblical poetry."<ref>Mandelbrote, “Lowth, Robert."</ref> In it,
<blockquote>"Lowth urged the importance of setting biblical poetry in the context of oriental rather than classical style and the impossibility of ever determining the ancient vocalization of the Hebrew Bible with sufficient accuracy to identify its true metrical structure. In place of metre Lowth argued that the structure of Hebrew verse could be identified by its often parabolic or figurative mode of expression, and in particular by the parallelisms, or repetitions of similar words or phrases, sometimes in a regular order, sometimes not, that gave rhythm to Hebrew poetry and song, and served almost as an alternative to metre. Using these critical tools Lowth also tried to identify a sublime, and divinely inspired, quality in Hebrew verse."<ref>Ibid.</ref></blockquote>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[Thomas Jefferson]] listed "Lowth de Poesi Hebraeorum. 8vo" in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]], noting that he kept the volume himself. He later sold a copy to the Library of Congress but it no longer exists to verify the edition or Wythe's previous ownership. 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> notes the 1763 edition based on E. Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:44 [no.4710].</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 February 22, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates the 1763 edition as the "probable" edition. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full polished calf with decorative gilt spine and leather label. Edges of boards also feature gilt design. Inscribed "Tho. Duresme" on the front pastedown. 
 
Find this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3674696 William & Mary's online catalog].
[[File:LowthDeSacraPoesiHebraeorum1763Inscription.jpg|center|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front pastedown.</center>]]
==References==
<references/>

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

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

Marci Minucii Felicis Octavius

2014-05-02T18:24:21Z

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===by Marcus Minucius Felix===
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|author=Marcus Minucius Felix
|editor=John Davies
|lang=Latin
|publoc=Glasguae
|publisher=In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis
|year=1750
|pages=[4], 112, [12]
|desc=8vo (16 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minucius_Felix Minucius Marcus Minucuis Felix] (d. ca. 250 CE) was a Roman advocate, rhetorician, and Christian apologist. His only known work,<ref>''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', s.v. "[http://www.iep.utm.edu/minucius/ Minucius Felix (c. 2nd and 3rd C. CE)]," accessed Oct. 8, 2013.</ref> ''Octavius'', one of the earliest Christian apologies in Latin. It is a dialogue between pagan Caecilius Natalis and a Christian, Octavius Januarius. We know little about the author, Marcus Minucuis Felix, other than that he was a lawyer and a Christian.<ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/384629/Marcus-Minucius-Felix Marcus Minucius Felix]," accessed October 17, 2013.</ref>
<blockquote>Minucius is of interest not only to theologians and Church historians, but also to those with an interest in philosophy and rhetoric. Unlike other Latin apologists of the period, such as Tertullian, who asserted ''credo quia ineptum'' (I believe because [it is] absurd) (''De Carne Christi'' 5.4), and who was openly hostile to speculative philosophy, Minucius attempted to establish at least the ''rational possibility'' of the Christian faith. The rhetoric found within the ''Octavius'' can be considered Ciceronian, having elements of the six-part speech (exordium, narration, partition, confirmation, refutation, and conclusion). This text represents an important stage in the evolution of rhetoric from a primarily oral, forensic, and political art, to a literary art.<ref>''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', s.v. "Minucius Felix."</ref> </blockquote>

The edition in George Wythe’s collection was edited by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(Queens%27) John Davies] (1679–1732), who was president of Queen’s College, Cambridge. He was close friends with the eminent classicist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bentley Richard Bentley], who contributed to many of Davies’s editions.<ref>Thompson Cooper, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/7248 Davies, John (1679–1732)]," rev. S. J. Skedd in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 17, 2013.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Minucii Felicis Octavius. 12mo. Foulis." This was one of the books kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. The Foulis Press printed only one title by Minucius, in 1755.<ref>Philip Gaskell, ''A Bibliography of the Foulis Press'', 2nd ed. (Winchester, Hampshire, England: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1986), 145.</ref> Jefferson owned two copies of this work. He sold one to the Library of Congress in 1815, but it no longer exists to establish Wythe's prior ownership.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:42 [no.1332].</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> mentions this copy and the one sold in 1829 after Jefferson's death, but Brown does not speculate about which copy previously belonged 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 March 4, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing also includes the Foulis publication with the note "Not sold to Congress in 1815." The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the Foulis edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. Board edges stamped and gilt. Purchased from Rosenlund Rare Books and Manuscripts. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3757399 William & Mary's online catalog].

==References==
<references/>

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

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

De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum

2014-05-02T18:19:45Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''De Sacra poesi Hebræorum''}}
<big>''De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum: Prælectiones Academiæ Oxonii Habitæ''</big>
===by Robert Lowth===
__NOTOC__
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowth Robert Lowth] (1710-1787) was born in Winchester, England. He attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_College Winchester College] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Oxford St. John’s College] in Oxford, and was admitted as a scholar at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College,_Oxford New College] before becoming a fellow. Lowth gained recognition for his poems in both English and Latin very early in life. In 1741, he was elected a professor of poetry at Oxford, and served for ten years. He focused on religious poetry, looking into “divinely inspired” Hebrew verses and creating new methods for reading and understanding the religious passages of verse.<ref>Scott Mandelbrote, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17104 Lowth, Robert (1710–1787)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed Oct. 7, 2013.</ref> 
[[File:LowthDeSacraPoesiHebraeorum1763Psalm19.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Psalm 19, verses 7-10, in Hebrew and Latin.</center> ''The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.''<ref>"[http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-Chapter-19/ Psalm 19]" in ''The Official King James Version Online'', accessed March 18, 2014.</ref>]]
Ordained in 1742, Lowth served as a priest and a chaplain before being appointed a royal chaplain in 1757. In 1766, he was consecrated as Bishop of St. David’s before being nominated and confirmed as Bishop of London.<ref>Mandelbrote, “Lowth, Robert."</ref> Lowth later declined to accept the position of Archbishop of Canterbury.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s. v. "Robert Lowth," accessed October 04, 2013, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/350052/Robert-Lowth.</ref> Lowth preached frequently, often on the need for godly administration within the church. As bishop, he was known for his eradication of “abuses of the clergy in political and financial matters.”<ref>Ibid.</ref>

Lowth's ''De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum'' derived from his lectures at Oxford. First published in 1753, the work helped "to expand and define the canon of biblical poetry."<ref>Mandelbrote, “Lowth, Robert."</ref> In it,
<blockquote>"Lowth urged the importance of setting biblical poetry in the context of oriental rather than classical style and the impossibility of ever determining the ancient vocalization of the Hebrew Bible with sufficient accuracy to identify its true metrical structure. In place of metre Lowth argued that the structure of Hebrew verse could be identified by its often parabolic or figurative mode of expression, and in particular by the parallelisms, or repetitions of similar words or phrases, sometimes in a regular order, sometimes not, that gave rhythm to Hebrew poetry and song, and served almost as an alternative to metre. Using these critical tools Lowth also tried to identify a sublime, and divinely inspired, quality in Hebrew verse."<ref>Ibid.</ref></blockquote>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[Thomas Jefferson]] listed "Lowth de Poesi Hebraeorum. 8vo" in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]], noting that he kept the volume himself. He later sold a copy to the Library of Congress but it no longer exists to verify the edition or Wythe's previous ownership. 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> notes the 1763 edition based on E. Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:44 [no.4710].</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 February 22, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates the 1763 edition as the "probable" edition. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full polished calf with decorative gilt spine and leather label. Edges of boards also feature gilt design. Inscribed "Tho. Duresme" on the front pastedown. 
 
Find this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3674696 William & Mary's online catalog].
[[File:LowthDeSacraPoesiHebraeorum1763Inscription.jpg|center|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front pastedown.</center>]]
==References==
<references/>

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

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

De Veritate Religionis Christianae

2014-05-02T18:16:50Z

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===by Hugo Grotius===
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|shorttitle=De Veritate Religionis Christianae
|author=Hugo Grotius
|edition=Editio novissima
|lang=Latin
|publoc=Amstelaedami
|publisher=Apud Henricum Wetstenium
|year=1696
|pages=[8], 296
|desc=8vo (16 cm.)
}}[[File:GrotiusDeVeritate1696Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Half-title.</center>]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_grotius Hugo Grotius] (1583-1645) is often touted as the "Father of International Law."<ref>Sean Murphy, ''Principles of International Law'', (Minnesota: Thompson West, 2006), chap. 3.</ref> Grotius influenced thinkers like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_locke John Locke] with his ideas of international law as natural law, or principles derived inherently from the human nature or human reason.<ref>Jeremy Waldron, ''God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought'', (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 189.</ref> Grotius also wrote extensively on maritime law and the law of war. 
 
Grotius composed a poem titled "Bewijs van den waren godsdienst" in a prison cell in 1620 after having been arrested by Prince Mauris.<ref>Jeremiah Hackett, reviewer, "''Hugo Grotius as Apologist for the Christian Religion: A Study of His Work "De Veritate religionis christianae" (1640)'' by J. P. Heering; J. C. Grayson,” ''The Sixteenth Century Journal'' 38, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 164.</ref> This didactic poem, whose title translates as "Proof of the True Religion," was first published in 1622 as a defense of Christianity against other religions and atheism.<ref>Ibid.</ref>The Latin version of this poem, ''De Veritate Religionis Christianae'' ("On the Truth of the Christian Religion"), was later published in 1640.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> The work contains six "books" with the first three touting the merits of Christianity, and the last three attacking paganism, Judaism, and Islam, respectively.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
[[File:GrotiusDeVeritate1696Illustration2.jpg|center|thumb|400px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Grotius de veritate religionis Christianae. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Grotius on Christ: Religion (latin)' ($1.50 value)." We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this without naming 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 1745 duodecimo edition published in Glasgow. Jefferson listed the volume as an octavo, but we do not know the precise edition owned by Wythe. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1696 octavo edition published in Amsterdam.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary vellum with manuscript title and "626" or "bzb" on spine. Purchased from Daniel Thierstein. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3714551 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
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Plutarch's Morals

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===by Plutarch===
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|author=Plutarch
|trans=M. Morgan, S. Ford, W. Dillingham, T. Hoy and others
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|publoc=London
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|set=5
|desc=8vo (19 cm.)
}}[[File:PlutarchMorals1694v4Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume four (incorrectly designated "V").</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch Plutarch] (ca. 45–120) was a Greek writer and public servant who frequented Rome as an ambassador. While there, he traveled among both commoners and emperors. A renowned philosopher, his most notable works are ''Parallel Lives'', a series of Greek biographies, and ''Moralia'' (Morals and Customs), a collection of works on religion, politics, and philosophy.<ref>''Online Library of Liberty'', s.v. "[http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=3778&Itemid=28 Plutarch: About the Author]," accessed September 28, 2013.</ref> Containing seventy-eight separate texts on a wide range of subjects, ''Moralia'' displays Plutarch's adherence to Platonic ideals and philosophy, displayed by his attacks on Stoic and Epicurean philosophy, both of which were notable detractors from Platonism in its varied forms. While these works are praised for their literary craft, they are criticized for their unfair representation of the arguments which Plutarch sets out to defeat.<ref>George Karamanolis, "[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/ Plutarch]" in ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (Stanford University, 1997- ), accessed September 28, 2013.</ref> 
 
Plutarch's greatest known contribution in ''Moralia'' is the sense in which he is able to portray a complex analysis of his subjects by shifting his lens between areas of humanities and social science. When describing the subjects of his work, he makes clear the personality traits that define them and explores in depth the anatomy of these traits, specifically the tendency for traits to have both positive and negative functionality.<ref>Laurel Fulkerson, "Plutarch on the Statesman Stability, Change, and Regret," ''Illinois Classical Studies'' 37 (2012): 51-74.</ref> Drawing again on his roots in Platonism, this descriptive force extends to his philosophical discussion, where he uses analogies, metaphors, and mythology to weave together the psychological, logical, and ethical considerations of his subject matter.<ref>Karamanolis, "Plutarch."</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''[Plutarch’s] Morals 4.v. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his granddaughters, [[Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead|Ann]] and [[Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge|Ellen Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 18, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates as much, adding "Numerous editions of the Morals were published." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists a fifth edition published in London in 1718 based on a copy owned by Jefferson. Because we do not know the precise edition Wythe owned, the Wolf Law Library purchased an available copy of the London third edition (1694).

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Late 17th century octavo, uniformly bound in calf with five raised bands and original spine labels. Neat pencil marginalia and notes in all volumes. Purchased from Marc J. Bartolucci. 
 
See this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3669681 William & Mary's online catalog].
==References==
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Platonis Philosophi Quae Extant Graece

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<big>''Platonis Philosophi Quae Extant Graece ad Editionem Henrici Stephani Accurate Expressa cum Marsilii Ficini Interpretatione; Praemittitur 1. III Laertii De Vita Et Dogm. Plat. cum Notitia Literaria. Accedit Varietas Lectionis. Studiis Societatis Bipontinae''</big>
===by Plato===
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|author=Plato
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|lang=Ancient Greek
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}}Little is known of Greek philosopher [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato's] (429-347 B.C.E.) early years, but he was interested in politics in his youth, and studied rhetoric under Dionysius.<ref>George Boas, “Fact and Legend in the Biography of Plato,” ''The Philosophical Review'' 57, no. 5 (Duke University Press, 1948): 443-44.</ref> He became a disciple of Socrates, and most of Plato’s works are in the form of a dialogue, many of which feature Socrates questioning various philosophical doctrines.<ref>Richard Kraut, ed., ''The Cambridge Companion to Plato'', (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992): 3.</ref> Plato introduced the Western conception of philosophy as a method of thought that probes the boundaries of human senses and understanding of the world.<ref>Ibid, 1.</ref> 
 
Plato’s philosophy centered on the doctrine that there are eternal forms that exist, such as “beauty” or “good,” which human senses cannot fully understand but strive to attain.<ref>Richard Kraut, Edward N. Zalta, ed., "Plato," ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (Fall 2013).</ref> His works do not present a comprehensive system of thought, but instead stimulate discussion and present starting points on how one may question the world.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Plato believed that a philosopher should probe why he perceives the world the way he does, and should apply overarching contemplative ideas (his eternal “forms”) in the moral actions of man.<ref>Alcinous, “The Doctrines of Plato”, translated by George Burges in ''The Works of Plato: a new and literal version'' (London: 1865), VI: 241-43.</ref> 
 
Plato developed this moral theory throughout his works. For example, in the ''Republic'' he explored how to attain happiness by living virtuously.<ref> Mary Margaret Mackenzie, “Plato’s Moral Theory,” ''Journal of Medical Ethics'' 11, no. 2 (BMJ, 1985):88, 90.</ref> He continuously criticizes social values and political institutions in works including ''Protagoras'', ''Gorgias'', ''Euthydemus'', proving his work is grounded in the practical sphere of human life as well as concerned with the soul.<ref>Richard Kraut, “Plato”.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Plato. Gr. Lat. 12.v 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the 1781-1787 edition of ''Platonis Philosophi'' based on the existence of that title and edition in Jefferson's library.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:33-34 [no.1311].</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on April 21, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing concurs that ''Platonis Philosophi'' was the "probable" title in [[Wythe's Library]], but no specific edition is listed. One possible problem with the identification of the 1781-1787 edition ''Platonis Philosophi'' as the title in Jefferson's inventory is the fact that Jefferson lists "12.v." and this edition only has 11 volumes. However, many copies of this edition, including Jefferson's at the Library of Congress, appear to have been accompanied by ''Dialogorum Platonis Argumenta Exposita et Illustrata, a Diet'' (Tiedemann: Biponti, 1786) bound as volume 12. The Wolf Law Library followed Brown and purchased a copy of the 1781-1787 edition.
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|display=left
|caption=Armorial bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, front free endpaper, volume one.
}}==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in mottled calf with gilt lining on boards and gilt decoration to spines. Title labels inset on black morocco and copper engraved title vignettes. Each volume includes the armorial bookplate of Mathew Wilson with the Latin motto "Res non verba" (Actions speak louder than words) on the front pastedown and the armorial bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer on the front free endpaper. Purchased from K Books Ltd. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3669676 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
[http://books.google.com/books?id=ngNEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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Holy Bible

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<big>''The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated Out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches''</big>
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|shorttitle=The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments
|commontitle=The Holy Bible
|author=Church of England
|lang=English
|publoc=Oxford
|publisher=Printed by Thomas Baskett, printer to the University
|year=1754
|pages=[1300]
|desc=4to (28 cm.)
}}[[File:TheHolyBible1754.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Added title page for ''The Historical Part of the Holy Bible or the Old and New Testament Exactly and Compleatly Describ'd in Above Two Hundred Historys Curiously Engrav'd''.</center>]]The "Authorized Version" of the King James Version Bible was first printed in 1611.<ref>David Daniell, ''The Bible in English'' (New Haven: Yale University Press), 427.</ref> The KJV Bible was preceded by the Geneva Bible (first printed in 1560), yet relied heavily upon William Tyndale’s “heretical” translations of the Bible first printed in English in 1526.<ref>Ibid, 294, 134.</ref> “As a publication in the seventeenth century it was undoubtedly successful: it was heavily used, and it rapidly saw off its chief rival, the three Geneva Bibles, to become the standard British (and American) Bible.”<ref>Ibid, 429.</ref> For the first 250 years of the KJV’s history, there were many, mostly minor typographical, errors, necessitating numerous re-printings.<ref>Ibid, 460.</ref> One such reprinting—the version once belonging to George Wythe—was printed in Oxford in 1754 by Thomas Baskett, son of the King's Printer, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baskett John Baskett] who first starting printing Bibles in London in 1711.<ref>Ibid, 513.</ref> Thomas inherited his father's printing house and title as King's Printer. He printed Bibles from 1743 until his death in 1761.<ref>William Gibson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1629 Baskett, John (1664/5–1742)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed Oct. 2, 2013.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
A copy of the 1754 Thomas Baskett edition of ''The Holy Bible'' with [[George Wythe's bookplate|George Wythe's armorial bookplate]] is held in the [http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1908837 Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia]. Martha Jefferson Burke (née Trist, a great granddaughter of [[Thomas Jefferson]]) inscribed on the last page of the section "A Commination": "This Bible belonged to George Wythe, bequeathed by him to Thomas Jefferson, given by Thomas Jefferson to his grand-daughter Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, bequeathed by her to her niece Martha Jefferson Trist, given by her to her son, Nicholas Philip Trist Burke, Alexandria, Va., after his death given to the University of Virginia by Martha Jefferson Burke, Alexandria, Va., July 4, 1912." A newspaper clipping of [[Venerable Old Tree|"A Venerable Old Tree"]] from ''The Times'' (Richmond, VA) for October 28, 1894, was laid in the book by Nicholas Philip Trist Burke (great, great grandson of Thomas Jefferson). The Bible also includes marginalia, possibly by Wythe, in Greek and English throughout the volume.

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), 2 (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 March 18, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing) list the 1754 Thomas Baskett edition of ''The Holy Bible''. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.
<center><gallery widths=200px heights=250px perrow=3>
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</gallery></center>
[[File:HolyBible1754InscriptionFFL.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Previous owner's inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary, slightly rubbed, black goatskin binding, with ornate floral border rolls gilt on the boards with burgundy morocco oval in the centre with gilt highlighting and IHS gilt. Sometime rebacked with original spine re-laid with added burgundy lettering piece. Includes inscription, "Mary Bowler, her book, the gift of her aunt, Mrs. Mary Osborne, 15th November 1757," on the front free endpaper. Unlike Wythe's copy at the University of Virginia—which includes no illustrations—the Wolf Law Library copy's includes illustrations from ''The Historical Part of the Holy Bible or the Old and New Testament Exactly and Compleatly Describ'd in Above Two Hundred Historys Curiously Engrav'd'' by J. Cole (London: Printed for Richard Ware, 1727) bound throughout the volume. Thomas Baskett who published ''The Holy Bible'' apparently offered versions of the same editions with or without the Cole engravings.<ref> T. H. Darlow and H. F. Moule, ''Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society'' (London: The Bible House, 1903), 263 and 281.</ref> Purchased from Collectable Books. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3621018 William & Mary's online catalog.]

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Paraphrase, and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament

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===by Henry Hammond===
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|author=Henry Hammond
|edition=First
|lang=English
|publoc=London
|publisher=Printed for J. Flesher for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivie-Lane
|year=1653
|pages=[6], 1008, [18]
|desc=Folio (34 cm.)
}}[[File:HammondParaphrase1653Marginalia.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Marginalia, Romans, chapter 11, verses 29-30, page 523.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hammond Henry Hammond] (18 August 1605 – 25 April 1660) was an English churchman widely regarded as an excellent preacher and orator, as well as a diligent scholar of both religious texts and literary works.<ref>''The Dictionary of National Biography'', s.v. "Hammond, Henry (1605-1660)."</ref> A loyalist clergyman, Hammond’s clerical activities included serving as the Archdeacon of Chichester, obtaining a canonry at Oxford’s Christ Church, and acting as a royal chaplain.<ref>John Fell, ''The Life of the Most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr. H. Hammond'' (London: J. Flesher, 1662).</ref> Parliament had him restrained for ten weeks in 1648 for his loyalist leanings, though he was subsequently allowed to move to his friend’s house where he was permitted to continue his ministerial obligations. Remaining there for about two years, Hammond preached only to a small, impoverished church. When King Charles I was put on trial in 1649, Hammond wrote on his behalf to the Council of War.<ref>Hugh de Quehen, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12157 Hammond, Henry (1605–1660)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed Oct. 1, 2013.</ref> 
 
In his lifetime, Hammond wrote more than fifty separate works, primarily controversial sermons and religious tracts. His ''Practical Catechism'', arguably his most famous work, was published in 1644 or 1645.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ''Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament'' was published about several years later in 1653. An innovator in Anglican theology, Hammond is thought to be the first English scholar to compare the language in New Testament manuscripts to decipher the New Testament’s true meaning.<ref>Arthur Middleton, ''Fathers and Anglicans'' (Herefordshire: Gracewing, 2001), 158-167.</ref> Though considered mostly outdated today, ''Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament'' established Hammond as the father of English biblical criticism.<ref>''The Dictionary of National Biography'', s.v. "Hammond, Henry (1605-1660)."</ref> Among Bible commentaries, the work was admired by such figures as Samuel Johnson.<ref> de Quehen, “Hammond, Henry.” </ref> Hammond and his works were so respected that even critics of his views held him in high esteem, with one such opponent referring to Hammond’s death as “a very great loss; for his piety and wisdom would have hindered much of the violence which after followed.”<ref>Michael McGiffert. “Henry Hammond and Covenant Theology,” ''Church History'' 74, no.2 (June 2005): 256.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
[[Thomas Jefferson]] listed "Hammond’s New testament. fol." in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]], noting that he kept the volume himself. He later sold a copy of the 1653 first edition to the Library of Congress. The copy still exists, but it contains no Jefferson or Wythe marks of ownership. Instead, it has the inscription "Richard Dunn, 1724" on the title page.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:102 [no.1488].</ref> Both Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the Library of Congress volume as Wythe's former copy. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.
[[File:HammondParaphrase1653HeadpiecePremonition.jpg|center|thumb|450px|<center>Headpiece, "A Premonition Concerning the Interpretation of the Apocalypse," page 904.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full leather with recent rebind and new endpapers. Includes Greek, Latin and English marginalia throughout the volume. Purchased from Cobweb Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/3621438 William & Mary Online Catalog]

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De Veritate Religionis Christianae

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===by Hugo Grotius===
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|shorttitle=De Veritate Religionis Christianae
|author=Hugo Grotius
|edition=Editio novissima
|lang=Latin
|publoc=Amstelaedami
|publisher=Apud Henricum Wetstenium
|year=1696
|pages=[8], 296
|desc=8vo (16 cm.)
}}[[File:GrotiusDeVeritate1696Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Half-title.</center>]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_grotius Hugo Grotius] (1583-1645) is often touted as the "Father of International Law."<ref>Sean Murphy, ''Principles of International Law'', (Minnesota: Thompson West, 2006), chap. 3.</ref> Grotius influenced thinkers like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_locke John Locke] with his ideas of international law as natural law, or principles derived inherently from the human nature or human reason.<ref>Jeremy Waldron, ''God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought'', (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 189.</ref> Grotius also wrote extensively on maritime law and the law of war. 
 
Grotius composed a poem titled "Bewijs van den waren godsdienst" in a prison cell in 1620 after having been arrested by Prince Mauris.<ref>Jeremiah Hackett, reviewer, "''Hugo Grotius as Apologist for the Christian Religion: A Study of His Work "De Veritate religionis christianae" (1640)'' by J. P. Heering; J. C. Grayson,” ''The Sixteenth Century Journal'' 38, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 164.</ref> This didactic poem, whose title translates as "Proof of the True Religion," was first published in 1622 as a defense of Christianity against other religions and atheism.<ref>Ibid.</ref>The Latin version of this poem, ''De Veritate Religionis Christianae'' ("On the Truth of the Christian Religion"), was later published in 1640.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> The work contains six "books" with the first three touting the merits of Christianity, and the last three attacking paganism, Judaism, and Islam, respectively.<ref>Hackett, 164.</ref>
[[File:GrotiusDeVeritate1696Illustration2.jpg|center|thumb|400px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Grotius de veritate religionis Christianae. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Grotius on Christ: Religion (latin)' ($1.50 value)." We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates this without naming 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 1745 duodecimo edition published in Glasgow. Jefferson listed the volume as an octavo, but we do not know the precise edition owned by Wythe. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1696 octavo edition published in Amsterdam.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary vellum with manuscript title and "626" or "bzb" on spine. Purchased from Daniel Thierstein. 
 
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3714551 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==References==
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==External Links==
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Doctrine of Abstinence from Blood Defended

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<big>''The Doctrine of Abstinence from Blood Defended. In Answer to Two Pamphlets, the One Called, The Question About Eating Blood Stated and Examined, &c. The Other Intitled, The Prohibition of Blood a Temporary Precept''</big>
===by Patrick Delany===
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|author=Patrick Delany
|edition=First
|lang=English
|publoc=London
|publisher=C. Rivington
|year=1734
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}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Delany,_D.D. Patrick Delany] (1685/6–1768), an Irishman, attended school at Trinity College in 1701 and was elected scholar in 1704.<ref>Alfred Webb, "[http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/PatrickDelany.php Patrick Delany]," ''Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, Eminent Persons Connected with Ireland by Office or by Their Writings'' (Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, 1878), Library Ireland website, accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> After getting his Masters at Trinity in 1709, he began preparing for ordination.<ref>Toby Barnard, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/7443 Delany, Patrick (1685/6–1768)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> By 1728, Delany had received the chancellorship for the Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin and later added St. Patrick’s, the second-largest cathedral in Dublin.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1744, Delany accepted an appointment as the dean of Downs, where he tried to rectify the wickedness he saw among the people—gambling; excess eating, drinking, and dress; cheating; avarice; and pride.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Delany died at Bath, in England, at the age of 82, and was buried in Glasnevin graveyard in Ireland.<ref>Webb, "Patrick Delany.”</ref> 
[[File:DelanyDoctrineOfAbstinence1734HeadPiece.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Head piece, first page of text</center>]]
The writer of many tracts and pamphlets, Delany composed ''The Doctrine of Abstinence from Blood Defended'' to explain his support of vegetarianism.<ref>Patrick Delany, ''The Doctrine of Abstinence from Blood Defended. In Answer to Two Pamphlets, the One Called, The Question About Eating Blood Stated and Examined, &c. The Other Intitled, The Prohibition of Blood a Temporary Precept'' (London: C. Rivington, 1734).</ref> Delany examines several Bible verses beginning with the story of Noah’s Ark to justify his belief that abstinence from blood is clarified in the Bible.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Knowing his subject was unpopular, he even states in the preface that this pamphlet will go against many theological views, and that many scholars will disagree completely.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
An existing copy of the 1734 edition sold to the Library of Congress by [[Thomas Jefferson]] in 1815 is "probably from the library of George Wythe [with] manuscript notes [which] appear to be in his hand."<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:162 [no.1633].</ref> However, Jefferson did not list the title in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]]. Despite this, all four of the [[George Wythe Collection|Wythe Collection]] sources (Goodwin's pamphlet<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, ''[http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings]'' (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), LI.</ref> Dean's Bibliography<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 3 (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 1734 edition of ''The Doctrine of Abstinence from Blood Defended.''

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in period style full calf. 

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3452348 William & Mary's online catalog].
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