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by William Salkeld
Salkeld's Reports | |
Title page from Salkeld's Reports, volume two, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
Author | William Salkeld |
Published | London: In the Savoy: J. Walthoe and J. Walthoe, jun. |
Date | 1717-1718 |
Language | English |
Volumes | 2 volume set |
Desc. | Folio (33 cm.) |
Location | Shelf F-5 |
William Salkeld (1671-1715), serjeant at law and law reporter, led a short but productive life.[1] He matriculated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1687 and entered the Middle Temple in 1692.[2] In 1698 he was called to bar. [3] Salkeld married Mary Ryves in 1700 and settled in Dorset.[4] In 1713 he was appointed chief justice of the Great Sessions for the counties of Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, and became serjeant at law in 1715.[5] Salkeld died later that year.[6]
Salkeld was well known for his reports.[7] His Reports of Cases in the Court of King’s Bench, published after his death, became “the standard work of the period.”[8] The first two volumes are of “undoubted accuracy” and were published under the guidance of Lord Hardwicke.[9] However, the third volume is more of a “refuse collection of cases,” containing the material Salkeld considered “unworthy of publication.”[10]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Both Dean's Memo[11] and the Brown Bibliography[12] suggest Wythe owned the first edition of Salkeld's Reports based on notes in the commonplace book of John Marshall.[13] Dean also cites Thomas Jefferson's commonplace book.[14] The Wolf Law Library followed the suggestions of Brown and Dean and purchased a copy of the first edition.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Bound in contemporary calf. Spines feature raised banks and a red morocco label to volume two. Label missing from volume one.
View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
See also
References
- ↑ W.R. Williams, "Salkeld, William (b. 1671, d. 1715)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed February 21, 2014.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ J.G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography (Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson Law Booksellers, 1847), 626-627.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 13 (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.
- ↑ Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., The Papers of John Marshall (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:44.
- ↑ Gilbert Chinard, ed. The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1926), 75.