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Ta tou Theokritou Sesomena = Theocriti Quae Extant
Title page from Ta tou Theokritou Sesomena = Theocriti Quae Extant, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.
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Published	Glasguae: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis
Date	1746
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Bibliographic Information

Author: Theocritus

Title: Ta tou Theokritou Sesomena = Theocriti Quae Extant

Publication Info: Glasguae: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis ..., 1746.

Edition:

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Theocritus Gr. Lat. 4to. Foul. and given by Thomas Jefferson to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Both George Wythe's Library^[1] on LibraryThing and the Brown Bibliography^[2] list the 1746 edition published by Foulis—this is the edition the Wolf Law Library purchased.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Small quarto bound in contemporary calf, rebacked to style, black calf label. Contains engraved armorial bookplate of the Bishop of Kilmore, dated 1774, with later owners' signatures dated 1842 and 1942. Purchased from Michael R. Thompson Books.

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

References

1. ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 13, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
2. ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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