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The Law of Covenants: a Treatise Explaining the Nature and Rules of the Several Sorts of Covenants

The Law of Covenants
Title page from The Law of Covenants, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.
Author	The Author of The Law of Ejectments
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Published	[London] In the Savoy: Printed by John Nutt, for Samuel Butler
Date	1712
Edition	Second
Language	English
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Pages	[32], 512 (i.e. 496), [22]
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Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as [Law of] Covenants 8vo. and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. The Brown Bibliography^[1] includes the second edition while George Wythe's Library^[2] on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. The first edition was published in 1711; the second, with similar imprint, in 1712."

↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on September 16, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe

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