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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library== | ==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Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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 purchased by the Wolf Law Library. | |
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== | ==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== |
Revision as of 15:29, 26 March 2014
A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, with Collects and Prayers for Each Solemnity
by Robert Nelson
A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England | |
Title page from A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
Author | Robert Nelson |
Published | London: Printed by W. Bowyer for R. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, B. Tooke, R. Wilkin, R. Smith, and T. Ward |
Date | 1720 |
Edition | Eleventh |
Language | English |
Pages | xxii, [4], 636, [16] |
Desc. | 8vo (20 cm.) |
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Wythe purchased "Nelson's Festivals" from the Williamsburg Printing Office for 12/6 in 1764.[3] All four of the Wythe Collection sources (Goodwin[4], Dean's Memo[5], Brown's Bibliography[6] and George Wythe's Library[7] on LibraryThing) list this title. Dean suggests the 1704 edition while the other three sources list the 1720 edition purchased by the Wolf Law Library.
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 William & Mary's online catalog.
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ The Virginia Gazette Daybooks, 1750-1752 & 1764-1766, ed. Paul P. Hoffman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1967).
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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 June 28, 2013.