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Francis Vesey's reports cover cases from the time of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yorke,_1st_Earl_of_Hardwicke Lord Chancellor Hardwicke]<ref>For more information about the Lord Chancellor, see Peter D. G. Thomas, [http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/30245 "Yorke, Philip, first earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007, accessed 7 Sept 2013. (Subscription required for access.)</ref> The third edition (1818) is more prized than the earlier two.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:143.</ref> Regarding the substance of the reports, "it would be difficult to find, in any age or nation, as the production of a single man, a more various or comprehensive body of legal wisdom, than is contained in these volumes.<ref> J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 709.</ref>
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Francis Vesey's reports cover cases from the time of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yorke,_1st_Earl_of_Hardwicke Lord Chancellor Hardwicke]<ref>For more information about the Lord Chancellor, see Peter D. G. Thomas, [http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/30245 "Yorke, Philip, first earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007, accessed 7 Sept 2013. (Subscription required for access.)</ref> Regarding the substance of the reports, "it would be difficult to find, in any age or nation, as the production of a single man, a more various or comprehensive body of legal wisdom, than is contained in these volumes."<ref> J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 709.</ref> The third edition (1818) is more prized than the earlier two.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:143.</ref>
  
 
==Bibliographic Information==
 
==Bibliographic Information==

Revision as of 20:08, 18 September 2013

by Francis Vesey

Francis Vesey's reports cover cases from the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke[1] Regarding the substance of the reports, "it would be difficult to find, in any age or nation, as the production of a single man, a more various or comprehensive body of legal wisdom, than is contained in these volumes."[2] The third edition (1818) is more prized than the earlier two.[3]

Bibliographic Information

Author: Francis Vesey.

Title: Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the Time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, from the year 1746-7, to 1755.

Publication Info: London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall ... for T. Cadell, 1773.

Edition: Second edition; two volumes.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Vezey’s rep. 2.v. fol. and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. Two-volume, folio editions were published in 1771 and 1773.[4] George Wythe's Library[5] on LibraryThing does not list a specific edition. The Brown Bibliography[6] lists the second edition based in part on a copy previously owned by Jefferson at the University of Virginia.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in contemporary calf. Spines feature six raised bands. Vol. II retains original gilt-lettered morocco label. Each volume includes the bookplate of Tho. Greenway on the front pastedown.

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. ↑ For more information about the Lord Chancellor, see Peter D. G. Thomas, "Yorke, Philip, first earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007, accessed 7 Sept 2013. (Subscription required for access.)
  2. ↑ J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 709.
  3. ↑ William Holdsworth, A History of English Law, (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:143.
  4. ↑ Richard Whalley Bridgman, A Short View of Legal Bibliography: Containing Some Critical Observations on the Authority of the Reporters and Other Law Writers (London: Printed for W. Reed, 1807), 349.
  5. ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on September 16, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
  6. ↑ 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
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