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Revision as of 15:13, 19 December 2025

George Wythe (1726 – 1806), William & Mary's — and America's — first law professor, assembled one of the most important libraries in eighteenth-century Virginia. Wythe's collection included Western classics, history, philosophy, science, mathematics, and law. These books had a direct impact on the development of Virginia law and the law of the new nation. In 2005 the Wolf Law Library began a project to replicate Wythe's library, focusing on items of a legal nature, but reflecting the breadth of Wythe's interests. The George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room houses our collection of about 360 of the roughly 500 titles in Wythe's collection. For a bibliography of the books, see the George Wythe Collection Title List. For a complete list of the books owned by Wythe, see Wythe's Library.

The images below represent the permanent exhibit. Copies which actually belonged to Wythe are indicated with a star: ★. Select a book to view more details about the titles on that shelf:

Marshall Wall

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New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

The Tragedies of Sophocles The Tragedies of Sophocles

Potter's Antiquities of Greece

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War

Guys' Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce

Guys' Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce

Machiavelli's History of Florence

Volney's Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte

Savary's Lettres sur l'Égypte

Chastellux's Travels in North-America

Franklin's Interest of Great Britain

Mirabeau's Considerations on the Order of Cincinnatus

Mazzei's Recherches Historiques et Politiques sur les États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale

Engraving of Chief Justice John Marshall, by Albert Rosenthal

Philipps's Tenenda Non Tollenda

Rowlett's Tables of Discount

Maseres' Principles of the Doctrine of Life-Annuities

Price's Observations on Reversionary Payments

Beccaria's Essay on Crimes and Punishments

History and Proceedings of the House of Lords

History and Proceedings of the House of Lords

Aristotle's Treatise on Government

Filmer's Patriarcha

Paine's Rights of Man

Debates and Other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia

Milton's Paradise Lost

 

The Works of Alexander Pope

The Works of Alexander Pope

Perkins on Conveyancing

Sheppard's Touch-stone of Common Assurances

Gilbert's Law of Devises

Godolphin's Orphan's Legacy

Nelson's Lex Testamentaria

J.A.'s Law of Obligations and Conditions

Jones's Essay on the Law of Bailments

Cunningham's Law of Bills of Exchange

Brydall's Jus Sigilli

Crompton's Authoritie et Jurisdiction des Courts

Gilbert's History and Practice of the High Court of Chancery

Manley's Clerks Guide

Lambarde's Eirenarcha

Fourth Part of Coke's Institutes

rown's Entring Clerk's Vade Mecum

Gilbert's Law of Evidence

Third Part of Coke's Institutes

Hale's Pleas of the Crown

Staunford's Plees del Coron

Burn's Ecclesiastical Law

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Encyclopaedia, or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature

Encyclopaedia, or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature

Encyclopaedia, or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature

Stackhouse's History of the Holy Bible

Old Testament in Greek

Lowth's De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum

New Testament in Greek

Blackwell's The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated

Grotius's De Veritate Religionis Christianae

Nelson's Companion for the Festivals and Facts of the Church of England

Book of Common Prayer in Greek

Book of Common Prayer in Latin

Orosius, The Anglo-Saxon Version

Hume's History of England

Lowth's De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum

 

The Comedies of Aristophanes The Comedies of Aristophanes
The Dramatick Works of John Dryden The Dramatick Works of John Dryden

 

The Fables of Phaedrus The Fables of Phaedrus

 

Vida's De Arte Poetica Vida's De Arte Poetica

Hobart's Reports

March's Reports

Style's Narrationes Modernae

Raymond's Reports

Brownlow and Goldesborough's Reports

Hutton's Reports

Bridgman's Reports

Barnes' Reports

Barnes' Reports

Hardres' Reports

Carew's Reports

Nelson's Reports

Forrester's Cases in Equity

Hughes' Reports

Sheppard's Epitome

Wingate's Maximes of Reason

Blackstone's Law Tracts

Fitzherbert's New Natura Breviume

Bracton's De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae

The Odyssey of Homer The Odyssey of Homer

 

The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift

 

The Works of Virgil The Works of Virgil

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Encyclopaedia, or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature

 

Encyclopaedia, or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature

Encyclopaedia, or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature

Butler's Hudibras

Marshall's Life of George Washington

Atlas for Marshall's Life of George Washington

Stith's History of Virginia

Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia

Guthrie's New System of Modern Geography

Pinkerton's Modern Geography

Cluver's Introduction to Geography

Atlas by Arrowsmith and Lewis

Steuart's Political Oeconomy

Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia

The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons

The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons

The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons

The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons

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★ Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates (Wythe's copy)

Pufendorf's De Officio Hominis & Civis

Brooke's Graunde Abridgement

Ovid's Metamorphoses

 

Wythe Pleading

Laws of the United States

Tucker's Blackstone

Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia (1803)

Mercer's Abridgement

Washington's Reports

Wythe's Reports (1795)

Wythe's Reports (1852)

Call's Reports

Call's Reports

Hening's New Virginia Justice

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Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii Consolationis Philosophiaen

Bacon's Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning

Philosophical Works of Lord Bolingbroke

Shaftesbury's Characteristicks

Aldrich's Artis Logicae Compendium

Gadbury's Genethlialogia

Kames' Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion

Raymondis's Traité Élémentaire de Morale et du Bonheur

Bryant's New System, or, An Analysis of Ancient Mythology

Delany's Doctrine of Abstinence from Blood Defended

Marci Minucii Felicis Octavius

The Holy Bible

Bolingbroke's Remarks on the History of England

Bolingbroke's Dissertation Upon Parties

Bolingbroke's Letter to Sir William Windham

Buchanan's Rerum Scoticarum Historia

Caldwell's Debates Relative to the Affairs of Ireland

Pelloutier's Historie Des Celtes

Plutarch's Lives

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Barthélemy's Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece

The Works of Rabelais The Works of Rabelais

Leonard's Reports

Owen's Reports

Coke's Reports

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★ Coke's Reports (Wythe's copy)

Britton

Fleta

Glanville's Tractatus de Legibus

Hale's History of the Common Law of England

Saint Germain's Doctor and Student

Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England

Jacob's A Treatise of Laws

Kames's Historical Law Tracts

Noy's Treatise of the Principal Grounds and Maximes of the Lawes

Finch's Nomotexnia

Style's Practical Register

Taylor's Elements of Civil Law

Law of Covenants

Craig's Jus Feudal

Dalrymple's Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property

Gilbert's Law of Uses and Trusts

Brydall's Ars Transferendi Dominium, the Second Part

Vinnius's Commentary on Justinian's Institutes

Harris's Translation of Justinian's Institutes

Theophilus's Paraphrase of Justinian's Institutes

Pothier's Treatise on Obligations

Rutherforth's Institutes of Natural Law

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The Works of Francis Bacon

The Works of John Locke

Klēmentos Alexandreōs ta Euriskomena

Lightfoot's Works

Hammond's New Testament Paraphrase

The Works of Richard Hooker

The Works of Dr. John Tillotson

Barclay's Apology for the True Christian Divinity

Blair's Chronology and History of the World

The Works of Sir William Temple

Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England

Ralph's History of England during the Reigns of K. William, Q. Anne, and K. George I

Sandys' Travels

The Works of Flavius Josephus

Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII

Postlethwayt's Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce

The Oceana of James Harrington

Pufendorf's Of the Law of Nature and Nations

Domat's Civil Law in its Natural Order

Shower's Cases in Parliament

The Year Books

The Year Books

Dyer's Reports

Plowden's Commentaries

Croke's Reports

Popham's Reports

Yelverton's Reports

Bulstrode's Reports

Rolle's Reports

Palmer's Reports

Jones's Reports

Siderfin's Reports

Keble's Reports

Modern Reports

Modern Reports

Modern Reports, Volume 7

Saunder's Reports

Rolle's Abridgment

Ventris's Reports

Pollexfen's Reports

Shower's King's Bench Reports

Skinner's Reports

Comberbach's Reports

Carthew's Reports

Holt's Reports

Salkeld's Reports

Raymond's Reports

Comyns's Reports

Fortescue-Aland's Reports

Lucas's Reports

Strange's Reports

Barnardiston's Reports

Andrews's Reports

Eight Centuries of Reports

 

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Jefferson Wall

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Harris's Philological Inquiries

Harris's Hermes

A Grammar of the Greek Language

Lud. Kusterus De Vero Usu Verborum Mediorum

Hederich's Graecum Lexicon Manuale

Ruddiman's Rudiments of the Latin Tongue

Littleton's Latin Dictionary

Historiarum Mirabilium Auctores Graeci

Discourses of Lycurgus (and others)

Aelian's Varia Historia

The Tragedies of Aeschylus

Odes of Anacreon (Greek)

Odes of Anacreon (English)

Complete Works of Isocrates

Longinus's On the Sublime

The Works of Cicero

Engraved portrait of Thomas Jefferson, by David Edwin.

Lucretius' Of the Nature of Things Lucretius' Of the Nature of Things

 

The Idylliums of Theocritus The Idylliums of Theocritus

The Spectator

The Connoisseur

Stipple engraving of George Wythe by J.B. Longacre

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The Metamorphoses of Antonius Liberalis

Appianus's Roman History

Aristophanes' Comedies

Works of Bion of Smyrna and Moschus

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Colluthus's Rape of Helen

Demetrius of Phalerum on Elocution

Select Orations of Demosthenes

Works of Demosthenes and Aeschine

Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn

Epictetus's Manuale et Sententiae

Euripides's Medea and The Phoenician Women

The Tragedies of Euripides

The Works of Shakespeare The Works of Shakespeare

 

Works of Pindar

 

Cervantes' The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote Cervantes' The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote

The Works of Cicero

Pliny the Elder's Natural History

Pliny the Younger's Letters

Quintillian's Institutione Oratoria

Statius' Silvae, Thebaid, and Achilleid

The Works of Suetonius

The Works of Tacitus

Terence's Six Comedies

The Works of Tibullus and Propertius

Valerius Maximus

Velleius Paterculus' Roman History

Virgil's Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis

The Works of Virgil (Latin)

Virgil's Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis

The Works of Virgil (English)

The Plays of Shakespeare

The Plays of Shakespeare

The Works of Shakespeare

The Works of Laurence Sterne

The Works of Jonathan Swift

Mathias's Pursuits of Literature

Poems and Compositions in Prose on Several Occasions

3

The Tragedies of Euripides

Works of Lysias

Plato's Philosophy

Plutarch's Morals

Polybius' Histories

The Works of Horace (Latin)

 

Comedies of Plautus

The Iliad of Homer

The Iliad of Homer

Statius' Silvae, Thebaid, and Achilleid

 

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★ Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Wythe's copy)

 

Satires of Juvenal and Persius

Addison's Miscellaneous Works

Butler's Hudibras

Darwin's Botanic Garden

The Works of John Dryden

Poems of Ossian

Milton's Paradise Lost

Milton's Paradise Regain'd

The Works of Alexander Pope

Ferguson's Tables and Tracts

Martin's Philosophical Grammar

Elements of Euclid (Latin)

Elements of Euclid (English)

Emerson's Treatise of Algebra

Newton's Arithmetica Universalis

Ward's Young Mathematician's Guide

Hutton's Mathematical Tables

Simpson's Treatise of Algebra

 

Munford's Poems and Compositions in Prose on Several Occasions

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Herodotus's Histories

Homer's Iliad in Greek and Latin

Homer's Iliad in Greek and Latin

Incerti scriptoris Graeci fabulae aliquot Homericae

Homer's Iliad

Homer's Odyssey

The Tragedies of Sophocles

The Works of Theocritus

The Idylliums of Theocritus

Theophratus's Characters

Xenophon's Cyropaedia

Xenophon's Hellenica and Agesilaus

Minor Latin Poets

The Works of Caesar

 

The Works of Laurence Sterne

The Works of Laurence Sterne

Select Orations of Cicero

Curtius Rufus's History of Alexander the Great

Gellius's Attic Nights

The Works of Horace (Latin)

The Works of Horace (English)

Horace's Epodes, Sermons, Epistles, and Ars Poetica

Horace's Epistles to the Pisos and Augustus

Justin's Historiarum Philippicarum

Satires of Juvenal and Persius

Livy's History

Lucretius's Of the Nature of Things (Latin)

Lucretius's Of the Nature of Things (English)

Nepos's On Famous Men

Ovid's Metamorphosis

The Satyricon of Petronius

The Fables of Phaedrus

The Comedies of Plautus

Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary

De Arte Poetica

Erasmus's Adages

Montaigne's Essays

Rabelais's Works

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Cervantes's Don Quixote

William & Mary Charter Oak

 

The Spectator The Spectator

Martin's Philosophia Britannica

Helsham's Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy

Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature

Darwin's Zoonomia

Hippocrates's Aphorisms

Dobson's Medical Commentary on Fixed Air

Gibson's Treatise of Practical Surveying

Glasse's Art of Cookery

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Dalison's Reports

Vaughan's Reports

Blackstone's Reports

Bunbury's Reports

Chancery Reports

Finch's Reports

Chancery Cases

Vernon's Reports

Peere Williams's Reports

Gilbert's Reports

Atkyns's Reports

Vesey's Reports

Precedents in Chancery

Abridgment of Cases in Equity

Abridgment of Cases in Equity

Sir Francis Moore's Cases

Bacon's Abridgment

Viner's Abridgment

Viner's Abridgment

Viner's Abridgment

Viner's Abridgment

Viner's Abridgment

Viner's Abridgment

Cowell's Interpreter

Jacob's New Law Dictionary

Coke's Book of Entries

English Works of Sir Henry Spelman

Registrum Brevium

Coke's Second Part of the Institutes

Ballow's Treatise of Equity

Kames's Principles of Equity

Booth's Nature and Practice of Real Actions

Coke on Littleton (First Part of the Institutes)

Pigott's New Precedents in Conveyancing

Swinburne's Treatise of Testaments and Last Wills

Cooke's Common Pleas Reports

Robinson's Book of Special Entries

Dalton's Countrey Justice

Dalton's Officium Vicecomitum

Brownlow Latine Redivivus

Mallory's Modern Entries

Winch's Beau Pledeur

Hale's Historia Placitorum Coronae

Hawkins's Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown

Foster's Reports

Collection of Acts of the Virginia Assembly (1733)

Acts of Virginia Assembly (1769)

Collection of Virginia's Public Acts (1785)

Collection of Public Acts of the Virginia Assembly (1794)

Corpus Juris Civilis

Grotius's Rights of War and Peace

Spence's Polymetis

Scapula's Greek-Latin Lexicon

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Demosthenis et Aeschinis Opera (1604)

Diodurus's Library

Herodotus's Histories

Homer's Iliad (Greek)

Homer's Odyssey (Greek)

Pausanias's Descriptions of Greece

Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War

Works of Caesar

Works of Abraham Cowley

Milton's Historical and Political Works

 

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