The Reports of Sir Henry Yelverton

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The Reports of Sir Henry Yelverton
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Title page from The Reports of Sir Henry Yelverton, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Sir Henry Yelverton
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Published London, In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for W. Feales
Date 1735
Edition Third
Language Greek
Volumes 3 volume set
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Desc. Folio (32 cm.)
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These reports "have always been esteemed as among the best of the older books both for value of decision and essential accuracy of report." [1]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Both Dean's Memo[2] and the Brown Bibliography[3] suggest Wythe owned this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.[4]

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards with renewed endpapers. Early owner signature on head of title page. Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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

References

  1. Wallace, The Reporters 211. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:310 (134).
  2. Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 15 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).
  3. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
  4. The Papers of John Marshall, eds. Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:45.

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