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| − | Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Voyages de la Grece 4.v. 8vo. de Guys'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Guy's Letters on Greece' (4 vols., $2.50 value)." Both [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 November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and 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Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, | + | Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Voyages de la Grece 4.v. 8vo. de Guys'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Guy's Letters on Greece' (4 vols., $2.50 value)." Both [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 November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. May, 2014.) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> identify this entry as the 1783 (third) edition. Barbara Dean listed this edition in her [[Dean Bibliography|bibliography]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 4 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> and Jefferson sold the same edition to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:134-135, [no.3914].</ref> Based on the evidence of these sources, the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the third edition. |
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==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== | ==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== | ||
Bound in full calf marble with richly adorned spine. Title page and volume number in red and green morocco. Purchased from Librairie Herodote.<br /> | Bound in full calf marble with richly adorned spine. Title page and volume number in red and green morocco. Purchased from Librairie Herodote.<br /> | ||
Revision as of 11:38, 11 July 2014
Voyage Littéraire De La Grèce: Ou, Lettres sur les Grecs, Anciens et Modernes, Avec un Parallèle de Leurs Moeurs
by M. Guys
| Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce | |
 Title page from Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce, volume one, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Author | Pierre-Augustin Guys |
| Published | Paris: Veuve Duchesne |
| Date | 1783 |
| Edition | Third edition, revised, corrected |
| Language | French |
| Volumes | 4 volume set |
| Desc. | 8vo (21 cm.) |
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Voyages de la Grece 4.v. 8vo. de Guys and given by Thomas Jefferson to his son-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Guy's Letters on Greece' (4 vols., $2.50 value)." Both George Wythe's Library[3] on LibraryThing and the Brown Bibliography[4] identify this entry as the 1783 (third) edition. Barbara Dean listed this edition in her bibliography[5] and Jefferson sold the same edition to the Library of Congress.[6] Based on the evidence of these sources, the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the third edition.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Bound in full calf marble with richly adorned spine. Title page and volume number in red and green morocco. Purchased from Librairie Herodote.
View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
References
- ↑ Olga Augustinos, French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 156.
- ↑ Konstantinos Andriotis, “Early Travellers to Greece and their Modern Counterparts” (paper presented at the Tourist Experiences: Meanings, Motivations, Behaviours, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, April 1-4, 2009).
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. May, 2014.) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
- ↑ Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 4 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:134-135, [no.3914].
External Links
Read volume one of this book in Google Books.
