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Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia (Mock Up)

Welcome to the George Wythe Encyclopedia, a project of The Wolf Law Library at the College of William & Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia. The encyclopedia provides historical and bibliographic information for the George Wythe Collection, The Wolf Law Library's ongoing re-creation of Wythe's Library, and is a compilation of material relating to the life of George Wythe, signer of the Declaration of Independence, chancellor for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and first professor of law in America.

The George Wythe Room Title page for Virginia's Collection of All Such Public Acts of the General Assembly, and Ordinances of the Conventions of Virginia. Richmond: Printed by Thomas Nicolson and William Prentis, 1785. Explore the George Wythe Room, the Wolf Law Library's re-creation of George Wythe's library. Pages for each title in the collection include information about the work and its author, evidence for why the library believes George Wythe owned each title, and descriptions and photos of the copy held at The Wolf Law Library. You can also find entries for the various people who received Wythe books after Thomas Jefferson inherited them and learn more about the copies of Wythe books that survive to this day. Jefferson's inventory of titles inherited from Wythe. Surviving books that belonged to Wythe. Shelf from the re-creation of George Wythe's library.

The George Wythe Encyclopedia Portrait of George Wythe in the Wolf Law Library's Nicholas J. St. George Rare Book Room. George Wythe is preeminent in the list of Virginia's revolutionary founding fathers, and his life and careers as a teacher and judge gave him the opportunity to have a profound impact on the history of the Commonwealth and the United States. Biographical information for George Wythe. List of Wythe's students. Details of Wythe's cases. Accounts of Wythe's death and the ensuing murder trial. Memorials to Wythe. Wythe's letters and correspondence. The story of Wythe's lost law lectures. Wythe ephemera. A bibliography of resources about Wythe.

Featured Case Aylett v. Aylett, Wythe 219 (1793), is an opinion from the Virginia High Court of Chancery that discussed whether a leasehold could be inherited. George Wythe took the opportunity to write an extensive discourse on why poorly-decided cases should not be considered binding precedent, using references to literature, to contemporary legal authorities, and to ancient Greek and Roman works.

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Featured Picture A shoe buckle once owned by George Wythe, with ruby-colored stones and a pin added later to turn it into a brooch. From the Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William & Mary.

About The Wolf Law Library

The law library at the College of William & Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law was rededicated in 2006 as The Wolf Law Library. The current facility was built in 1980, but the library was expanded and completely renovated in 2005-2007 to include space for over 400,000 volumes, seating for more than 500, 12 group study rooms, and the Nicholas J. St. George Rare Book Room, where some of the library's materials relating to John Marshall and George Wythe are on display. The library's mission includes providing access to law and law-related resources, as well as a wide range of services that support the law school curriculum and programs, promoting the advancement of legal scholarship, and fulfilling the information needs of students, faculty, and the local legal community.

For a detailed history of the library, see "America's First Law School Library: A History of the College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe Law Library, 1779-1995" by James S. Heller, in Law Librarianship: Historical Perspectives, ed. Laura N. Gasaway & Michael G. Chiorazzi (Littleton, CO: Rothman, 1996), 43-76.

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Jefferson Inventory

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Books given to Carr and Dinsmore

Books given to Dabney Carr and James Dinsmore.

Page one of Jefferson's inventory of books received from George Wythe's estate, September, 1806. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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3d. Chancery rep. 8vo    Nelson's Chancery reports 8

Kaim's Pr. Eq. fol.

Treatise of Equity fol.

Swinburne on wills. fol.

P. W. rep. 3.v. fol.

Ca. temp. Talbot. fol

Bunbury's reports fol.

Atkyns's rep. 1st. & 3d. v. fol.

Vezey's rep. 2.v. fol.

Gilbert's reports. fol.

Ca. in Eq. abridged. 2.v. fol.

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Jacob's introdn to the Common, civil & canon laws. 8vo.

Law of Devises 8vo

Uses & trusts 8vo

Awards 8vo

Bills 8vo

Covenants 8vo

Obligations 8vo

Laws of US. 1st. 2d. 3d. vols 8vo.

Brown's Entering clerk's Vade mecum 8vo.

Danvers' abr. 2d. & 3d v. fol.

Bacon's abr' 4. v. in 7. vol. fol.

Jacob's L. D. fol.

Registrum brevium fol.

Modern entries 2d. v.

Rastell's entr. fol.

Robinson's entr. fol.

Winch's entries. folio

Dalton's sheriff. fol.

Hale's P.C. 2. v. fol.

Hawkins' P.C. fol.

Foster's crown law.

Wingate's Maxims fol.

Godbolt's reports 4to.

Moore's rep. fol.

Owen's

Hobart's

Sr. W. Jones's

Vaughan's

T. Raymond's

Shower's ca. in parl.

Ld. Raymond's 2.v. fol.

Fortescue's rep.

Strange's rep. 1st. vol.

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to James Dinsmore.

Stewart & Revett's Antiquities of Athens.

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Books given to Dinsmore, Ogilvie, the Randolphs, and Eppes

Books given to James Dinsmore(?), James Ogilvie, Ann and Ellen Randolph, Martha Jefferson Randolph, and John Wayles Eppes.

Page two of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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juris civilis. fol.

[H]arris's Justinian. 4to.

[Vi?]nnii institutiones. 4to.

Taylor's civil law. 4to.

Grotius

Puffendorf.

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Mr. Ogilvie

Mathematiques de Bezout. 3d. & 4th. vols. 8vo.

Ciceronis opera. notis varior. 9.v. 4to.

Ann Randolph. & Ellen

Plutarch's lives 1st. to the 6th. vol. 8vo.

Morals 4.v. 8vo.

Pope's Odyssey. 5.v. 12mo.

Shakespear. 3. odd vols. p.f. .

Pope's Homer's Iliad. 1st. 3d. 4th. 5th. 6th vols 12mo

Odyssey. 5.v. 12mo.

Dryden's works. 6.v. 12mo.

Shakespeare by Theobald. the first 6.v. 12mo.

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Th.J. Randolph.

J.W. Eppes.

Herodotus. 8.v. 12mo. Foulis

Xenophontis historia. 4.v. 8vo. Foulis

Polybius. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo.

Caesar fol. Foul.

Cornelius Nepos. Lat. Eng. by Arrol. 8vo.

Homeri Ilias. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis

Odysseus. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis.

Horace de Dacier. Lat. Fr. 10.v. 8vo]].

Ciceronis opera. Lat. 20.v. 16[mo?]. Foulis

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Books given to Thomas Jefferson Randolph

Books given to Thomas Jefferson Randolph.

Page three of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

[Th. J. Randolph?]

Herodotus Gronovii. Gr. Lat. fol.

Diodorus Siculus. 2.v. fol.

Anacharsis. Eng. 5.v. 8vo. Eng.

Potter's antiquities. 2.v. 8vo.

Justin. 12mo.

Dionysius Halicarnasseus.

Quintus Curtius varior. 8vo.

Polybius. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo.

Livius. p.f.

Livii selecta. 12mo.

Caesar Delphini. 8vo.

Cornelius Nepos. 12mo. Foul.

Appianus. variorum. 2.v. 8vo.

Tacitus. varior. 2.v. 8vo.

Suetonius. Delph. 8vo.

Valerius Maximus. 12mo.

Velleius Paterculus. Delph. 8vo.

Buchanani historia Scotiae. 8vo.

Fisher's Young man's companion. 12mo.

Epictetus. Gr. p.f. Foul. [ed. entry inserted later?]

Antoninus. Gr. Lat. 12mo.

Plato. Gr. Lat. 12.v. 8vo.

Morale et Bonheur. p.f.

Liturgia Anglicana. Gr. 12mo.

Yorick's sermons. odd vol.

Ward's Mathematics. 8vo.

Mc.laurin's Algebra. 8vo.

Arithmetica Universalis Newtoni. 8vo.

Price on annuities. 8vo.

Euclid. Eng. 8vo.

Hutton's Mathematical tables. 8vo.

Martin's Philosophical grammar. 8vo.

Martin's Philosophia Britannica. 3.v. 8vo.

Helsham's lectures. 8vo.

Cluverii geographia. p.f.

Strabo. Gr. Lat. fol.

Pausanias Gr. Lat. fol.

Homeri Ilias. Gr. Lat, cum scholiis Didymi. 4to.

do. _ _ _ _  Clarke. 2d. vol. 8vo.

Virgil Delph. 8vo.

do.  Foulis. 12mo.

Quintus Coluthus. Gr. Lat. 8vo.

Phaedrus. 12mo.

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Books given to Thomas Jefferson Randolph.

Page four of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Aristophanes Gr. Lat. 6.v. 8vo.

do. _ _ _ _ _ Gr. Lat. p.f.

Theocritus Gr. Lat. 4to. Foul.

Ovid de arte amandi. 12mo.

Pindar. 3.v. p.f. Foul. Gr.

Poetae minores. 12mo Foul.

Addison's works. 1st. v. 12mo. [ed. entry inserted later?]

Musae Anglicanae. 3.v. 12mo.

Buchanani Psalmorum libri. 12mo.

Excerpta ex Luciani operibus. à Kent. 8vo.

Lucretius. 12mo. Foul.

Lucretius by Creech. 2.v. 8vo.

Horatius Delphini. 8vo.

Horatius. Foulis. 12mo.

Horace by Francis. 4.v. 12mo.

Juvenalis et Persius. Delph. 8vo.

Quinctilianus de instutitione Oratoriâ. 4to.

Blair's lectures. 1st. vol. 4to.

Isocratis opera omnia. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo.

Lysiae opera omnia. Gr. Lat. 2.v. 8vo.

Ciceronis orationes selectae Delph. 8vo.

Scapulae Lexicon. fol.

Hederici Lexicon. 4to.

Portroyal Gr. grammar by Nugent 8vo.

Ruddiman's larger Latin grammar 8vo.

Exercises of Syntax. 12mo.

Tooke's Diversions of Purley 8vo.

Barrington's Orosius. Saxon & English. 8vo.

Auli Gellii noctes Atticae. p.f.

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Books given to Thomas Mann Randolph

Books given to Thomas Mann Randolph.

Page five of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

[Mr. Randolph?]

Josephus. by Lestrange. fol.

Clarendon's history. 3.v. fol.

Temple's works 2.v. fol.

Guthrie's history of England & Ralph's continuation 5.v. fo[l.]

Etats Unis de Mazzei. 4.v. in 3. 8vo.

Marshal's Life of Washington. 4.v. 8vo.

Hippocratis Aphorismata. p.f.

Plinii Historia Naturalis fol.

Shaftesbury's Characteristics. 3.v. 12mo.

Platonis opera. Gr. Lat. fol.

Montaigne. Eng. 2.v. 8vo.

Tillotson's works. 2.v. fol.

Grotius de veritate religionis Christianae. 8vo.

Code de l'humanité. 13.v. 4to. par Felice.

Tucker's Blackstone 5.v. 8vo.

Hooker's Ecclesiastical polity. fol.

Machiavel.

Mirabeau, Turgot etc 8vo/sup>.

Bolingbroke to Windham 8vo.

's Dissertation on parties. 8vo.

's Oldcastle's remarks 8vo.

Parliamentary Manual. 12mo.

Debates in the H. of Lords 7.v. 8vo.

in the H. of Commons. 13.v. 8vo.

Irish Debates. 2.v. 8vo.

Postlethwayt's Dictionary. 1. of the vols only. fol.

Voyages de la Grece 4.v. 8vo. de Guys

Lettres de Savary sur l'Egypte 3.v. 8vo.

Egypte de Volney. 2.v. 8vo.

Darwin's Botanic garden. 8vo.

Zoonomia. 3.v. 8vo.

Spectator. an odd vol.

Connoisseur. an odd vol.

Rabelais. 5.v. 12mo. 2d. wanting

Dictionary of Arts & sciences. 4.v. 8vo.

Bacon's works. 4.v. fol.

Locke's works. 3.v. fol.

Milton's Prose works. 2.v. fol.

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Books retained by Jefferson

Jefferson kept 149 titles from Wythe's estate for his own library. This list is subdivided into categories assigned by Jefferson

Page six of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

	[Th]ucydides Gr. Lat. notis variorum. Dukeri fol.
	Thucydides Eng. by Smith. 2.v. 4tto.
	Xenophontis Cyropaedia. Gr. Lat. Hutchinson. 4to.
	Bryant's Mythology. 3.v. 4to.
	Sallust. Delph. 8vo.
	Aelianus Perizonii notis. 2.v. 8vo. [ed. Perizonii inserted with carat]
[Mo]drn [Histo]ry }	Blair's Chronology. fol.
	Puffendorf's introdn to the hist. of Europe 1st. v. 8vo.
[Eccles]astl.	Stackhouse's history of the Bible. 5.v. 8vo.
[Agricu]ltre.	Auctores rei rusticate. Cato, Varro etc p. 8vo.
[Chemi]stry.	Dobson's Commentary on fixed air. 8vo.
[H]is[t]	Plinii historia Naturalis. Varior. 3.v. 8vo.
	Goldsmith's Animated Nature. 4.v. 8vo.
	Digges's Stratioticos. 8vo.
	Description of Nairne's electrical machine. 8vo
	Epicteti Manuel Gr. Lat. 4to.
	Theophrasti careteres. Gr. Lat. 12mo. Foulis
	Boetius de Consolationes. 12mo. Foulis.
	Minuciius Felicis Octavius. 12mo. Foulis
	Hume's essays. 1st. vol. 8vo.
[Relig]ion	The Bible 4to.
	Novum testamentum. Gr. 8vo. Lond. 1728.
	do. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   12mo. Lond. 1743. Bower
	do. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  12mo. Lond. 1730. Tonson [ed. entry inserted later?]
	Testamentum vetus LXXII. et novum. 3.v. 12mo. Cantab. 1665.
	Hammond's New testament. fol.
	Clarke's Concordance. 12mo
	Liturgia Anglicana Gr. 12mo.
	do. _ _ _ _ _ _   Lat. 12mo.
	Mori opera. 2.v fol.
	Puffendorf de officio hominis et civis. Johnson 8vo.
	Carey's reports in Chancery 16s.
	Reports in Chancery tempore Finch. fol.
	Vernon's reports. 2.v. fol.
	Wythe's Chancery decisions. fol. & 8vo.
[Commo]n law.	Cragii Jus feudale. fol.
	Glanvil. 12mo.
	Bracton. fol.
	Les tenures de Monsr. Littleton. p.f.
	Perkins's treatise on the law of England. p.f.
	Coke on Littleton. fol. defective.
	Coke's Institutes. 3.v. fol.
	Viner's abr. F. to Y. inclus. 10.v. fol.
	Blackstone's commentaries. 1st. & 4th. vols. 4to.
	Laws of the US. 4.v. 8vo.
	Laws of Virgā. various edns.
	Brownlow's entries
	Clerk's guide by Manly. 8vo.
	Brown's Modus intrandi. 2.v. 8vo.
	Pigott's conveyancing. fol.
	Brydall's conveyancer. 8vo.
	[L]aw of bailments. 8vo.

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Books retained by Jefferson.

Page seven of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

	Trover. 8vo. [entry partially shaved]
	Plowden's reports. French. fol
	do. _ _ _ _ _ _   English. fol.
	Croke's rep. 3.v. fol.
	Siderfin's   fol.
	Shower's   2.v. fol.
	Levinz's   2.v. fol.
	Andrews'   fol.
	Cases in L. & Eq. or 10th. Modern. fol.
	Report of the case of Kampier & Hawkins in the G.C. of Virga. 8vo.
	Washington's reports. 2.v. 8vo.
	Call's reports. 2.v. 8vo.
Law Ecclesl.	Nelson's letters testamentary. 8vo.
Politics.	Xenophontis Hiero. sive de regno. 12mo. Foul. [ed. checkmark in pencil precedes entry]
	Proceedings of the Virginia convention
Mathematics.	Emerson's Algebra. 8vo.
pure.	Simpson's Algebra. 8vo.
	Rowlett's tables. 4to.
	Masere's principles of life annuities. 4to.
	Euclid by Simpson. 4to.
	Gibson's surveying. 8vo.
	Treatise on gauging. 8vo.
Astronomy	Gadberry's doctrine of nativities. p. fol.
Geography	Guthrie's geography 2.v. 4to.
	Pinkerton's geography. 2.v. 8vo.
	Sandy's travels. fol.
	Notes on Virginia. 8vo. 2.copies.
	Atlas by Arrowsmith & Lewis 4to.
	Plans of forts in America 8vo.
Poetry - Epic.
Fine arts.
Architecture.	LeRoy's Ruins of Athens. fol
Sculpture	Spence's Polymetis. fol.
Poetry. Epic.	Homeri Ilias et Odyssea. Barnes. 2.v. 4to.
	Homeri Odysseus. Gr. Oxon. 8vo.
	Virgil. 12mo.
	Dryden's Virgil. 3.v. 12mo.
	Milton's Paradise lost & regained. Baskerville. 2.v. 8[vo]
	Ossian. 2.v. 8vo.
	Statius. varior. 8vo.
Romance.	Ovidii Metamorphoseon. Delph. 8vo.
	Constantia Philips. 2d. & 3d. v. 12mo.
Tragedy.	Francklin's Sophocles. 2.v. in 1. 4to.
	Aeschylus. Gr. Lat. 2.v. p. 4to. Foul.
	Euripidis Medea et Phoenissae. Gr. Lat. Piers. cum scholii
	Euripedes
	Potter's Euripides. 2.v. 4to.
	Joddrell's illustrations of Euripides. 8vo.
	Shakespear by Johnson & Steevens with the Supplement 12.v.
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Books retained by Jefferson.

Page eight of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

	[Plautus] notis varior. 2.v. 8vo.
[?]	Fawkes's Theocritus. 8vo.
	Bion et Moschus. Gr. Lat. notis Heskin. 8vo.
	Virgilii Bucolica Rami. 12mo.
	Callimachus. Gr. fol. Foul.
	Tyrtaeus. Gr. Lat. 4to. Foul.
	Anacreon, Sappho, et Alcaeus. Gr. Lat. 12mo.
	Anacreon. Gr. Forster. 12mo.
	Moore's Anacreon. p. 8vo.
	Tibullus et Propertius. 12mo. Foul.
	Vida. 12mo.
	Musae Anglicanae. 3.v. 12mo.
	Cowley's works. fol.
	Psalterion. Gr. Lat. 12mo.
[Dialo]gue.	Luciani opera. Gr. Lat. Gesneri. sholiis et notis 3.v. 4to. Amst. 1743.
[Didac]tic.	Lucretius. Lond. Tonson. 1712. 4to.
	do. _ _ _ _  Tanaquil Fabri. 12mo.
	Hurd's Horace. 2.v. 12mo.
	Petronius. notis varior. 8vo.
	Swift's works. 13.v. 12mo.
	Praedium Rusticum.
	Pursuits of Literature. 8vo.
	Hudibras. p.f.
	Plinii epistolae. 12mo.
[Orat]ory.	Artis Logicae. Aldrich. 12mo.
	Demetrius Phalereus de elocutione. Gr. Lat. Foulis. 8vo.
	Cambray on eloquence. 12mo.
	Demosthenis orationes selectae. Mounteney. 8vo.
	Oeuvres de Demosthene & do Eschine par Auger. Fr. 5.v. 8vo.
	Discours de Lycurgue, d'Andocide etc par Auger. Fr. 8vo.
	Isocrate d'Auger. 3.v. 8vo.
[Critici]sm.	Greek grammar of Gloucester. 8vo.
	Basilii Fabri thesaurus eruditionis Scholasticae. fol. [ed. entry inserted later?]
	Thesaurus linguae Latinae Cowper. fol.
	Littleton's Latin dict. Lat. Eng. 4to.
	Ainsworth's dict. Lat. Eng. abridged. 8vo.
	Gradus ad Parnsassum. 12mo.
	Ash's Introduction to Lowthe's grammar. 12mo.
	Walker's dictionary. 8vo.
	Harris's Philological enquiries. 8vo.
	Blackwell's sacred classics. 2.v. 12mo.
	Lowth de Poesi Hebraeorum. 8vo.
	Longinus. Gr. Lat. Tollii 4to.
	Claesse's Mohawk liturgy. p. 4to.
[Polygra]phic.	American Encyclopedia. 18.v. 4to.
	Erasmi Adagiorum epitome. p.f.
	Bacon's advancement of learning. p. fol. Eng.

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