Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide, d'Isée, de Dinarque

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Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide, d'Isée, de Dinarque, avec un Fragment Sous le Nom de Démade
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Title page from Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide, d'Isée, de Dinarque, avec un Fragment Sous le Nom de Démade, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Lycurgus, Andocides, Isaeus, Dinarchus, and Demades
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Translator Abbé Athanase Auger
Published A Paris: Chez De Bure, fils aîné ... ; Théophile Barrois ... ; Alexandre Jombert jeune ...
Date 1783
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Language French
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Pages xvii, 578, [4]
Desc. 8vo (20 cm.)
Location [[Shelf {{{shelf}}}]]
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Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide etc par Auger. Fr. 8vo." This was one of the titles kept by Thomas Jefferson and may have been sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Jefferson did sell a copy of the first (1738) edition of Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide, d'Isée, de Dinarque to the Library of Congress and that copy still exists today. However, the set has no definitive markings linking it to Wythe.[1] George Wythe's Library[2] on LibraryThing lists the copy at the Library of Congress. The Brown Bibliography[3] discusses the Library of Congress copy, noting Jefferson owned another copy sold in 1829 after his death. The Wolf Law Library followed the recommendations of Brown and LibraryThing and purchased the first edition.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in marbled cardboard from the later nineteenth century. Contains stamp of the library of the royal family of Hanover with his motto "e Suscipere finire."

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References

  1. E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:24 [no.4665].
  2. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe" accessed on March 5, 2014.
  3. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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

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