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D. Justiniani Institutionum Libri Quator, The Four Books of Justinian's Institutions

translated by George Harris

D. Justiniani Institutionum Libri Quator
Title page from D. Justiniani Institutionum Libri Quator, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.
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Translator	George Harris
Published	London: Printed by J. Purser for M. Withers
Date	1761
Edition	Second
Language	English
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Pages	iv, 73, 121, 100, 92, [11], [4], p.
Desc.	(27 cm.)
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Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as [H]arris’s Justinian. 4to. and given by Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore. Brown's Bibliography^[1] suggests either the 1st edition (1756) or the 2nd edition (1761) while noting that Jefferson sold a copy of the latter to the Library of Congress.^[2] George Wythe's Library^[3] on LibraryThing notes "Precise edition unknown. Editions with similar imprints were published at London in 1756 and 1761" while also mentioning Jefferson's copy at the Library of Congress.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Signed on title page: J. Wickham 1789.

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

External Links

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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 ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, ‘’Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson’’, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:397 [no.2191].
3. ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe