Difference between revisions of "Law Tracts"
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library== | ==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library== | ||
| − | The evidence is not conclusive. According to Bennie Brown, the copy in the Thomas Jefferson's Library | + | The evidence is not conclusive. According to Bennie Brown, the copy in the Thomas Jefferson's Library collection at the Library of Congress has the signature of ''D. Carr'' on the title page.<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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</ref> Jefferson gave his nephew, Carr, many of Wythe's law books. How this particular set ended up in the library Jefferson sold to Congress is unknown. |
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== | ==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| − | [http://books.google.com/books?id=51FWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books Volume 1] | + | [http://books.google.com/books?id=51FWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books Volume 1]<br /> |
[http://books.google.com/books?id=EVJWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books Volume 2] | [http://books.google.com/books?id=EVJWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books Volume 2] | ||
===References=== | ===References=== | ||
Revision as of 14:43, 19 June 2013
by William Blackstone
Bibliographic Information
Author: William Blackstone (1723-1780)
Title: Law Tracts, in Two Volumes.
Published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1762.
Edition: First collected ed.
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
The evidence is not conclusive. According to Bennie Brown, the copy in the Thomas Jefferson's Library collection at the Library of Congress has the signature of D. Carr on the title page.[1] Jefferson gave his nephew, Carr, many of Wythe's law books. How this particular set ended up in the library Jefferson sold to Congress is unknown.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Two octavo volumes bound in recent hessian cloth with gilt lettering and rules to spines.
External Links
Google Books Volume 1
Google Books Volume 2
References
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
