Theophrastou Charaktēres Εthikoi

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Theophrastou Charaktēres Εthikoi = Theophrasti Characteres Ethici

by Theophrastus

Thephrastou Charakteres Ethikoi
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Title not held by The Wolf Law Library
at the College of William & Mary.
 
Author Theophrastus
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Published Glasgow:
Date 1758
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Glasguae: Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1758.


Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Theophrasti careteres. Gr. Lat. 12mo. Foulis" This was one of the titles kept by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson may have sold it the Library of Congress in 1815. Both George Wythe's Library[1] on LibraryThing and the Brown Bibliography[2] list the 1758 edition published in Glasgow based on the Jefferson copy at the Library of Congress.[3] While the copy still exists, it includes no definitive ties to Wythe. As of yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of Theophrastou Charaktēres Εthikoi.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in contemporary calf with blind frames to boards, rebacked retaining spines with raised bands and lettering pieces. Title page signed "Geo: Hayward, Bot. of Wm. Goldsborough 1763," "Wm. Goldsborough 1734" and "<illegible> 1704." Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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

References

  1. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe", accessed on February 2, 2015.
  2. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
  3. E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:382 [no.2152].