Law Tracts

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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

Recent binding is hessian cloth with gilt title on the spine and new endpapers.

References

  1. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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