The Law of Covenants

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

The Law of Covenants
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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 Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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