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[[File:LawOfCovenants1712TitlePage.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Title Page from [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3569591 ''The Law of Covenants''], George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary]]
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==Bibliographic Information==
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'''Title:''' ''The Law of Covenants: a Treatise Explaining the Nature and Rules of the Several Sorts of Covenants''.
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'''Published:''' [London], In the Savoy: Printed by John Nutt, for Samuel Butler, 1712.  
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'''Edition:''' Second edition; [32], 512 (i.e. 496), [22] pages.
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
 
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

Revision as of 10:34, 14 January 2014

The Law of Covenants: a Treatise Explaining the Nature and Rules of the Several Sorts of Covenants

The Law of Covenants
LawOfCovenants1712TitlePage.jpg

Title page from The Law of Covenants, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author The Author of The Law of Ejectments
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Published [London] In the Savoy: Printed by John Nutt, for Samuel Butler
Date 1712
Edition Second
Language English
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Pages [32], 512 (i.e. 496), [22]
Desc. 8vo. (20 cm.)
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Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as [Law of] Covenants 8vo. and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. The Brown Bibliography[1] includes the second edition while George Wythe's Library[2] on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. The first edition was published in 1711; the second, with similar imprint, in 1712."

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
  2. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on September 16, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe