The Reports of that Learned Sir Henry Hobart Knight
The Reports of that Learned Sir Henry Hobart Knight, Late Lord Chiefe Justice of His Maiesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster Resolved and Adjudged by Himselfe and Others, the Judges and Sages of the Law Renowned for That Profession in His Time;;
by Sir Henry Hobart
| The Reports of that Learned Sir Henry Hobart Knight | |
 Title page from The Reports of that Learned Sir Henry Hobart Knight, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Author | Sir Henry Hobart |
| Published | London: Printed by the assignes of Iohn More |
| Date | 1641 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 489 p. (i.e. 463), [6] p. |
| Desc. | (22 x 17 cm.) |
Sir Henry Hobart (c.1554–1625) studied at Furnival's Inn before entering Lincoln's Inn in 1575. He was called to the bar in 1584, made a bencher in 1596, and appointed a serjeant-at-law in 1603.[1] He held multiple other offices including attorney-general, commissioner of ecclesiastical causes, chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and chancellor to Charles, Prince of Wales (later Charles I).
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Hobart's [reports] and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. Multiple editions were published from 1641 to 1724.[2] We do not have enough information to identify the precise edition owned by Wythe. Barbara Dean lists the 5th edition[3] based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book. Brown's Bibliography[4] includes the 3rd edition (1671) based on the edition sold by Thomas Jefferson to the Library of Congress. George Wythe's Library[5] on LibraryThing) notes "Precise edition unknown."
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Bound in simply ruled early dark calf, recently rebacked, with raised bands and title label on spine. Front pastedown with late 18th or 19th century armorial bookplate of "Clark, Kedlington, Yorks."
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References
- ↑ Stuart Handley, "Hobart, Sir Henry, first baronet (c.1554–1625)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 5 June 2013. (Subscription required for access.)
- ↑ Sweet & Maxwell's Complete Law Book Catalogue, comp. W. Harold Maxwell, vol. 1, A Bibliography of English Law to 1650, Including Books Dealing with that Period, Printed from 1480 to 1925 (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1925), 199.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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
- ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
