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by Anthony Fitzherbert

Title Page from The New Natura Brevium, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary

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Bibliographic Information

Author: Anthony Fitzherbert.

Title: The New Natura Brevium.

Published: [London], in the Savoy : printed for Henry Lintot and sold by J. Shuckburgh, 1755.

Edition: Eighth edition, carefully revised; [12], 606, [42] pages.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Both Dean's Memo^[2] and the Brown Bibliography^[3] suggest Wythe owned this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.^[4]

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Rebound in brown buckram; pencil annotations on flyleaf.

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

References

1. ↑ J. H. Baker, "Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony (c.1470–1538)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 18 Sept 2013. (Subscription required for access.)
2. ↑ Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 11 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).
3. ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
4. ↑ The Papers of John Marshall, eds. Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:46.