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	Bound in contemporary full calf with banded spine. Includes inscription "Traff" on front free endpaper. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange.		Bound in contemporary full calf with banded spine. Includes inscription "Traff" on front free endpaper. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange.
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by Michael Dalton

Officium Vicecomitum
Title page from Officium Vicecomitum, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.
Author	Michael Dalton
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Published	London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers
Date	1623
Edition	First
Language	English
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Pages	3 pages, 194 leaves, [10] pages
Desc.	Folio (29 cm.)
Location	Shelf L-5
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Michael Dalton (1564-1644), an English barrister and legal writer, was born in Linton, Cambridgeshire in 1564.^[1] He was accepted to Lincoln’s Inn in 1671 and called to the bar in 1589. In 1604, he became deputy steward of the University of Cambridge and in 1618, published The Countrey Justice, a treatise for local magistrates which became quite popular.^[2] Dalton remains "historically significant" for this contribution. He followed that publication with another legal treatise in 1623, Vicecomitum, or, The Office and Authoritie of Sheriffs, which also proved successful, appearing in an abridged version in 1628 and multiple reprintings as late as 1700.^[3] In fact, "in spite of a growing number of rivals, it continued to be a standard authority till the beginning of the eighteenth century."^[4]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Dalton's office of Sheriff. fol and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. We do not know which edition Wythe owned. The Brown Bibliography^[5] includes the 1700 edition based on the existence of this edition in Thomas Jefferson's library. George Wythe's Library^[6] on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Folio editions were published at London in 1670, 1682, and 1700." The 1623 edition owned by The Wolf Law Library is also a folio edition.^[7]

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in contemporary full calf with banded spine. Includes inscription "Traff" on front free endpaper. Purchased from the Lawbook Exchange.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on Flickr. View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

See also

References

1. ↑ D. A. Orr, "Dalton, Michael (1564–1644)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed October 25, 2013.
2. ↑ Ibid.
3. ↑ Ibid.
4. ↑ W. S. Holdsworth, A History of English Law (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924), 4:119.
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on September 16, 2013.
7. ↑ English Short Title Catalog, record for 1623 edition includes the same size designation "2⁰" as the other editions.