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{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Les Reports de Sir William Jones''}}
<big>''Les Reports de Sir William Jones, Chevalier ... De Divers Special Cases Cy Bien in le Court de Banck le Roy, come le Common-Banck in Angleterre, Cy Bien en le Darreign Temps del'Reign de roy Jaqves, come en la'nn de Roy Charles I''</big>
===by Sir William Jones===
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|shorttitle=Les Reports de Sir William Jones
|commontitle=Jones's Reports
|author=Sir William Jones
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|publisher=Printed by T.R.N.T. for Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswel
|year=1675
|edition=First
|lang=French
|pages=6 p. l., 463, [22] 
|desc=Folio (34 cm.)
}}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_%28judge%29 Sir William Jones] (1566-1650) spent some time at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furnival%27s_Inn Furnival's Inn] before being admitted to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_Inn Lincoln's Inn] in 1587. He was called to the bar in 1595. In 1617, he became [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serjeant_at_law serjeant-at-law] and was appointed chief justice of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King%27s_Bench_%28Ireland%29 King's Bench] in Ireland. An appointment as justice to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Common_Pleas_%28England%29 Court of Common Pleas] followed in 1621 and a transfer to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King%27s_Bench_%28England%29 King's Bench] in 1624.<ref>Christopher W. Brooks, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15102 "Jones, Sir William (1566–1640)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 23 Sept 2013. (Subscription required for access.)</ref> The ''Reports'' of this "venerable magistrate" cover decisions from his entire career in England, both from his time at the Court of Common Pleas and the King's Bench."<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed., rev. and enl. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 258.</ref> The reports are considered "authoritative, and have a good reputation for accuracy, but are rarely referred to on account of their antiquity and the language in which they remain."<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 428.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
There is no doubt Wythe owned this title&mdash;a copy of the first edition (1675) at the Virginia Historical Society includes Wythe's bookplate and the inscription "Given by Thos. Jefferson to D. Carr 1806." The title is also listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Sr. W. Jones's [reports]''; [[Thomas Jefferson]] noted that he gave it to [[Dabney Carr]]. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> 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</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe,"], accessed on April 21, 2013,  </ref> on LibraryThing include the first edition of this title based on knowledge of Wythe's copy at the Virginia Historical Society. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in 19th-century three-quarter brown sheep with russet linen boards and red spine label. Purchased from Bauman Rare Books.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3473587 this book in William & Mary's online catalog.]
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