Exercises of Syntax
| Exercises of Syntax | ||
 at the College of William & Mary. |
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| Edition | Precise work and edition unknown. | |
| Desc. | 12mo | |
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Exercises of syntax. 12mo." and given by Thomas Jefferson to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. No exact title matches Jefferson's description. The Brown Bibliography[1] suggests two plausible titles based on copies owned by Thomas Jefferson, John Stirling's Abridgment of Pomey's Pantheon, by way of Latin Exercises (London, 1740) and the same author's A Short View of English Grammar, 2nd edition (London: 1740). [2] George Wythe's Library[3] on LibraryThing states "Precise work unknown. Possibly William Ellis, A collection of English exercises (1782) or William Turner, Exercises to the accidence (several editions)." As yet, the Wolf Law Library determined which title to purchase for this entry.
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References
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. 2023) Microsoft Word document, on file at the Wolf Law Library.
- ↑ Brown, The Library of George Wythe. Brown suggests the first title based on E. Millicent Sowerby's Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 5:90 no.4801. Jefferson sold a title he listed as "# 20. Stirling's Exercises, 12mo" to the Library of Congress in 1815. Sowerby joins that reference to her entry based on the 1839 catalog of books in the Library of Congress, proposing the two are the same. The second title Brown offers, Stirling's English Grammar, is based on an entry in "Jefferson's manuscript catalog of 1770-1812, where he lists it as: Stirling's exercises 8vo. 6d."
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on July 10, 2025.