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*Addison, Joseph. ''[[The Miscellaneous Works, in Verse And Prose, of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.|The Miscellaneous Works, in Verse And Prose, of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.: With Some Account of the Life And Writings of the Author By Mr. Tickell]]''. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1746.
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*Butler, Samuel. ''[[Hudibras]]''. London: Printed for John Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-noster-Row, 1710.
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*Cowley, Abraham. ''[[The Works Of Abraham Cowley|The Works Of Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those Which Were Formerly Printed and Those Which He Design'd for the Press, Now Published Out of the Authors Original Copies]]''. 5th ed. London: Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, 1678.
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*Dryden, John. ''[[The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq.|The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq.: in Six Volumes]]''. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1762-1763.  
 
*Dryden, John. ''[[The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq.|The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq.: in Six Volumes]]''. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1762-1763.  
  
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*Milton, John. ''[[Paradise Regain'd|Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, In Four Books To Which Is Added Samson Agonistes And Poems Upon Several Occasions]]''. Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1758.  
 
*Milton, John. ''[[Paradise Regain'd|Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, In Four Books To Which Is Added Samson Agonistes And Poems Upon Several Occasions]]''. Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1758.  
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*Pope, Alexander. ''[[The Works Of Alexander Pope,|The Works Of Alexander Pope Esq. In Nine Volumes Complete, With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death,  Together With The Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton]]''. London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton {etc.}, 1751.
  
 
*Shakespeare, William. ''[[The Plays Of William Shakespeare|The Plays Of William Shakespeare: In Ten Volumes, With The Corrections And Illustrations Of Various Commentators To Which Are Added Notes]]''. London: Printed for C. Bathurst ... et al., 1778.  
 
*Shakespeare, William. ''[[The Plays Of William Shakespeare|The Plays Of William Shakespeare: In Ten Volumes, With The Corrections And Illustrations Of Various Commentators To Which Are Added Notes]]''. London: Printed for C. Bathurst ... et al., 1778.  
  
 
*Shakespeare, William. ''Supplement To The Edition Of Shakespeare's Plays Published In 1778.'' London: C. Bathurst ..., 1780.  
 
*Shakespeare, William. ''Supplement To The Edition Of Shakespeare's Plays Published In 1778.'' London: C. Bathurst ..., 1780.  
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Shakespeare, William. ''[[The Works Of Shakespeare|The Works Of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Collated With The Oldest Copies, And Corrected]]''. 2nd ed. London: Printed for H. Lintott, C. Hitch, J. and R. Tonson, C. Corbet, R. and B. Wellington, J. Brindley, and E. New, 1740.
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*Sterne, Laurence. ''[[The Works of Laurence Sterne]]''. London : Printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson ... 1780.
  
 
*Swift, Jonathan. ''[[The Works Of Dr. Jonathan Swift|The Works Of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean Of St. Patrick's, Dublin With The Author's Life And Character, Notes Historical, Critical And Explanatory, Tables Of Contents And Indexes More Complete Than Any Preceding Editions : In Thirteen Volumes Accurately Corrected By The Best Editions]].'' Edinburgh: Printed for A. Donaldson and sold at his shop ... in ... London, and at Edinburgh, 1768.  
 
*Swift, Jonathan. ''[[The Works Of Dr. Jonathan Swift|The Works Of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean Of St. Patrick's, Dublin With The Author's Life And Character, Notes Historical, Critical And Explanatory, Tables Of Contents And Indexes More Complete Than Any Preceding Editions : In Thirteen Volumes Accurately Corrected By The Best Editions]].'' Edinburgh: Printed for A. Donaldson and sold at his shop ... in ... London, and at Edinburgh, 1768.  
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*Homer. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ipBaAAAAYAAJ ''[[The Odyssey of Homer]]''.] Translated. London: Printed for Henry Lintot, 1752.  
 
*Homer. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ipBaAAAAYAAJ ''[[The Odyssey of Homer]]''.] Translated. London: Printed for Henry Lintot, 1752.  
  
*Homer. ''[[The Iliad and The Odyssey|Των του Ομηρου Σεσωμενων Απαντων ΤομοιΤεσσαρες, Της του Όμήρου Ίλιάδος ό τόμος πρότρος Δεγτερος]]''. Edited by J. Moor and G. Muirhead. Glasguae: In aedibus Academicis, Excudebant R. et A. Foulis, 1756-1758.
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*Homer. ''[[The Iliad and The Odyssey|Tēs tou Homērou Iliados, Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''. Edited by J. Moor and G. Muirhead. Glasguae: In aedibus Academicis, Excudebant R. et A. Foulis, 1756-1758.
  
 
*Sophocles. ''[[The Tragedies of Sophocles]]''. Translated by Thomas Francklin. London: Printed for R. Francklin, 1758-1759.  
 
*Sophocles. ''[[The Tragedies of Sophocles]]''. Translated by Thomas Francklin. London: Printed for R. Francklin, 1758-1759.  
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===Roman===
 
===Roman===
 
*Virgil. ''[[The Works of Virgil, Containing His Pastorals, Georgics and Æneis]]''. Translated by John Dryden. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1748.
 
*Virgil. ''[[The Works of Virgil, Containing His Pastorals, Georgics and Æneis]]''. Translated by John Dryden. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1748.
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*Macpherson, James. ''[[The Poems of Ossian]]''. A new ed. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1784-85.
  
 
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Architects' rendering of the proposed Wythe Rare Books Room at the College of William & Mary's Wolf Law Library (ARIVE Architecture & Interiors).

In 2005, the Wolf Law Library began a project to replicate the library of William & Mary's (and America's) first law professor, George Wythe, who assembled one of the most important libraries in eighteenth-century Virginia. Wythe's library of more than 450 titles, including Western classics, history, philosophy, science, mathematics, and law had a direct impact on the development of Virginia law and the law of the new nation.

The George Wythe Collection focuses on items of a legal nature, but we also actively collect titles in history, philosophy, and political science. The chancellor’s library consisted of more than 450 titles. Although roughly half of the titles Wythe owned fall outside the primary goals of our collection—geography, mathematics and science, for example—we do acquire some of them to illustrate the breadth of Wythe's interests.

Collection Priorities:

  1. Titles showing a definite connection to George Wythe: The Wolf Law Library makes every attempt to duplicate the exact edition and impression of all items with a proven connection to Wythe. This group includes titles written by Wythe; those he collaborated upon; volumes known to possess Wythe’s signature, his armorial bookplate, or inscribed notes attributed to him; and works that include Wythe’s name among the published list of subscribers.
  2. Titles identified in Jefferson’s manuscript list: We collect titles identified by Thomas Jefferson’s manuscript list detailing his dispersal of George Wythe’s library. Where the specific edition Wythe owned is unknown, we limit consideration to those works published before Wythe’s death in 1806 and prefer those titles/editions known to have been owned by Jefferson (see Sowerby) or the recipient he listed. If no specific edition/title information exists for these copies, we prefer those editions/titles identified in contemporary Virginia libraries. When none of these options identifies an edition or title, we will collect the most valuable edition of a given work that might have been part of the Chancellor’s collection.
  3. Titles noted in the commonplace books or other writings of Wythe’s students: We collect those titles specifically noted by Wythe’s students in existing papers and commonplace books that do not fall into categories 1 or 2. If the student note postdates that student’s educational association with Wythe, every attempt will be made to verify the title through other resources.
  4. Titles quoted or mentioned in Wythe’s case reports: We collect those titles to which the Chancellor refers or alludes in his published case reports if the titles do not fall into categories 1, 2, or 3.
  5. Titles representative of Wythe’s time: We collect titles represented in law libraries of the eighteenth century if those titles do not fall in the above categories.

Titles in the Wolf Law Library's Collection

Case Reports, Digests, and Statutes

England

Abridgments

Court of Chancery

Court of Common Pleas

Court of Exchequer

Court of King's Bench

Multiple Courts

House of Lords

Yearbooks

Virginia

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Legal

Other

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History

General

American

Ancient

  • Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. Translated with notes historical and critical from M. Dacier. London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1727.

British

  • Bolingbroke, Henry St. John. A Letter to Sir William Windham ; II. Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation ; III. A Letter to Mr. Pope. London: Printed for the Editor, and sold by A. Millar, 1753.

Italian

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Legal Treatises

General

  • Blackstone, William, 1723-1780. Law Tracts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1762.
  • Breton, John le. Britton. London: Printed by the assignes of John Moore Esquire, 1640.
  • Kames, Henry Home, Lord. Historical Law-Tracts. Edinburgh and London: Printed by A. Kincaid, His Majesty's Printer, for A. Millar, London, and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh, 1761.

Administration of Criminal Justice

Civil Law

Civil Procedure

Commercial Law

Contracts

Courts

Criminal Law

  • Beccaria, Cesare. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. Translated from the Italian, with a commentary, attributed to Mons. de Voltaire, translated from the French. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1767.
  • Fitzherbert, Anthony. The New Natura Brevium. London, in the Savoy : printed for Henry Lintot ... and sold by J. Shuckburgh, 1755.

Ecclesiastical Law

  • Burn, Richard. Ecclesiastical Law. London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, Law-Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1781.

Equity

  • Ballow, Henry. A Treatise of Equity. London, in the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer) for D. Browne, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; and J. Shuckburgh, at the Sun next the Inner Temple gate in Fleetstreet, 1737.
  • Kames, Henry Home, Lord. Principles of Equity. Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid, His Majesty's printer. For A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1760.

International Law

Property

Remedies

Roman Law

  • Arnoldi Vinnii JC. in Quatuor Libros Institutionum Imperialium: Commentarius Academicus & Forensis. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Joannem van der Linden, Juniorem, 1726.
  • D. Justiniani Institutionum Libri Quator, The Four Books of Justinian's Institutions. Translated by George Harris. London: Printed by J. Purser for M. Withers, 1761.
  • D. Justiniani, Sacratissimi Principis, Institutionum, Sive, Elementorum, Libri Quatuor: Notis Perpetuis Multo, Quam Hucusque, Diligentius Illustrati. Amstelodami: off. Elzeviriana, 1669.

Virginia Law

Wills

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Literature

English

  • Butler, Samuel. Hudibras. London: Printed for John Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-noster-Row, 1710.
  • Shakespeare, William. Supplement To The Edition Of Shakespeare's Plays Published In 1778. London: C. Bathurst ..., 1780.

Shakespeare, William. The Works Of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Collated With The Oldest Copies, And Corrected. 2nd ed. London: Printed for H. Lintott, C. Hitch, J. and R. Tonson, C. Corbet, R. and B. Wellington, J. Brindley, and E. New, 1740.

  • Sterne, Laurence. The Works of Laurence Sterne. London : Printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson ... 1780.

French

Greek

  • Anacreon. Odes of Anacreon. Translated by Thomas Moore. Philadelphia: Printed and published by Hugh Maxwell, opposite Christ-church. 1804.
  • Theocritus. The Idylliums of Theocritus. Translated by Francis Fawkes. London: Printed for the author by D. Leach and sold by J. and R. Tonson ..., 1767.

Roman

Scottish

  • Macpherson, James. The Poems of Ossian. A new ed. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1784-85.
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Philosophy

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Miscellaneous

Art

Astrology

Economics

Geography

Language

Mathematics

Political Science

Religion

Science

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