Precedents in Chancery
| Precedents in Chancery | |
 Title page from Precedents in Chancery, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Author | Great Britain. Court of Chancery. |
| Published | [London], In the Savoy: Printed by E. And R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for Arthur Bettesworth |
| Date | 1733 |
| Edition | First |
| Language | English |
| Volumes | 1 volume set |
| Pages | 4, 598 (i. e. 588), [40] pages. |
| Desc. | 31 cm. Paging irregular; p. 357-366 omitted in numbering.
Issued anonymously; notes of cases to 1708 ascribed by Lord Hardwicke to Mr. Pooley, and from that period to Mr. Robins; in 1786 the work was edited by Thomas Finch. cf. Marvin, Legal bibl.; Wallace, The reporters; Bridgman, Legal bibl.; Viner, Abridgment. Includes index. |
First published in 1733 and covering cases from 1689 to 1722, Precedents in Chancery has been attributed to "Mr. Pooley" and "Mr. Robins."[1] Chief Baron Gilbert possessed the manuscript, but it was stolen and printed clandestinely after his death.[2] "The cases are briefly reported, but are of respectable authority."[3]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Both Dean's Memo[4] and the Brown Bibliography[5] suggest Wythe owned this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.[6]
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
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References
- ↑ Richard Whalley Bridgman, A Short View of Legal Bibliography: Containing Some Critical Observations on the Authority of the Reporters and other Law Writers (London: Printed for W. Reed, 1807), 264.
- ↑ W. S. Holdsworth, A History of English Law (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1924), 6:618.
- ↑ J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 586.
- ↑ 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- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
- ↑ The Papers of John Marshall, eds. Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:44.
