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  ...its author, evidence for why the library believes George Wythe owned each title, and descriptions and photos of the copy held at The Wolf Law Library. ...its author, evidence for why the library believes George Wythe owned each title, and descriptions and photos of the copy held at The Wolf Law Library. -->
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• Reports of Sir Edward Coke
  ...essed on June 28, 2013</ref> on LibraryThing list the 1738 edition of this title. ...CokesReports1738NinthPartSignature.jpg|right|thumb|250px|<center>Initials, title page, ninth part.</center>]]
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• Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery
  |pages=165, [3] As author, Wythe would have owned his own case reports. Additionally, the title is listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] as "Wythe's Chancery decisions. fo
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• Eight Centuries of Reports
  |pages=x, [10], 341, [28] ...hed portion of [[John Marshall|John Marshall's]] law notes and listed this title and edition in his [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 biblio
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• Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench
  |pages=[12], 397, [37] There is no doubt that George Wythe owned this title&mdash;a copy of the first edition (1754) at the Library of Congress include
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• Treatise of Equity
  |pages=7, 132 ...on April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the first edition of this title. The Wolf Law Library followed their recommendations and purchased a copy o
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• Chronology and History of the World
  |pages=148 ...ed on April 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing list the first edition of this title as the one intended by Jefferson's entry. The Wolf Law Library followed the
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• History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia
  |pages=viii, 331 [ie. 341], v, 34 ...tions Research Center.</ref> suggest Wythe owned the first edition of this title based on his letter. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the first edi
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• New Abridgment of the Law
  ...on April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the first edition of this title based on knowledge of Wythe's copy at the Library of Congress. [[Dean Bibli
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• Commentaries on the Laws of England
  ...on the Laws of England'', his premier work.<ref>Ibid.</ref> "In some 2000 pages the common law's tortuous complexities were outlined in a manner at once au ...o labels. Each volume includes the signature of "Nicholson Calvert" on the title page. Volume one has loose page of manuscript notes.
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• De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
  | style="vertical-align: top; font-size: 85%;"|'''Pages''' ...erfect: lacks title page and all pages preceding first numbered leaf; many pages of index torn and/or missing. Includes marginal annotations in brown ink th
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• Fleta
  |pages=[8], 553 (i.e. 555), [5] |caption=Armorial bookplate and inscription, title page verso.
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• Treatise of the Principal Grounds and Maximes of the Lawes
  |pages=159 Bound in period style full calf with blind rules. Title page bears the stamp of the [https://birminghamlawsociety.co.uk/ Birmingham
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• Registrum Brevium
  |pages=[8], 321, 85 leaves, 59, 239 Rebound in period-style full calf. The title page includes signatures and annotations.
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• Doctor and Student
  |pages=344, [39] ...0288/13433.</ref> suggest Wythe owned the sixteenth (1761) edition of this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson,
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• Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae
  |pages=[6] pages, 113 (i.e. 116) numbered leaves, [34] pages ...k throughout and inscription "Ex lib: Guli: Acton 1724" at the head of the title page. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton
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• Officium Vicecomitum
  |pages=3 pages, 194 leaves, [10] pages ...Law Library is also a folio edition.<ref>[http://estc.bl.uk English Short Title Catalog], record for 1623 edition includes the same size designation "2⁰"
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• Brownlow Latine Redivivus
  |edition=First Latin edition; pages. |pages=[6], 506 (i.e. 406), [46]
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• Beau-Pledeur
  |pages=[8], 1183 [i.e. 1067], [85] ...style with red title label. Includes the signature of "Geo: Kenyon" on the title page. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton
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• New Precedents in Conveyancing
  |pages=iv, 576, [26] There is no doubt that George Wythe owned this title&mdash;a copy of the second (1742) edition at the Library of Congress includ
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• Touch-Stone of Common Assurances
  |pages=6 p. l., 529 (i.e. 525), [6] ...PhD diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 1967), 263.</ref> Brown lists the title as questionable. His study of Jefferson's commonplace books revealed no ref
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• Law of Covenants
  |pages=[32], 512 (i.e. 496), [22] ...of previous owners, "John Macpherson, Jr. 1771" and "Charles Swift" on the title page. Purchased from The Bookpress, Ltd.
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• Eirenarcha
  |pages=[2], 606 (i.e. 614), [86] ...h binder's title "Lombard's Eirenarcha"; text trimmed cutting into running title. Includes the bookplate of W. Radcliffe on the front pastedown. Purchased t
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• New Natura Brevium
  |pages=[12], 606, [42] ...andle/10288/13433</ref> suggest Wythe owned the 8th edition (1755) of this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>''The Papers of Joh
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• Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer
  |pages=[2], viii, [4], 412, [20] ...ial of Rebels''; stamped, "New York University School of Law", on verso of title page. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton
  5 KB (766 words) - 12:10, 27 October 2021
• Principles of Equity
  |pages=[10], xviii, 289, [15] ...rr]]. Two folio editions of this title were published.<ref>''English Short Title Catalog'', http://estc.bl.uk, search of "Principles of Equity and Kames" re
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• Rights of War and Peace
  |pages=817 [i.e. 813, 1] ...ssed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing both include the 1738 English title based on a copy sold at auction in 1881 which contained [[George Wythe's bo
  4 KB (654 words) - 12:47, 27 October 2021
• Of the Law of Nature and Nations
  |pages=[24], 724, [22] ...rf.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[James Dinsmore]]. The precise title and work are unknown. Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library o
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• Nature and Practice of Real Actions
  |pages=[4], 297, [25] ...//digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> suggests Wythe owned this title based on quotations in the manuscript version of [[John Marshall|John Marsh
  4 KB (570 words) - 13:24, 26 October 2021
• Jus Feudale
  |pages=[2], xxii, 524, 52 ...period style. Spine features four bands with gilt rules with green label. Title page punched "Biddle Library Univ. Penn." Purchased through the generosity
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• Law of Uses and Trusts
  |pages=[4], 437, [81] Bound in contemporary blind calf. Inscribed "P. Warburton" on the half-title. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Bara
  6 KB (852 words) - 12:54, 25 August 2023
• Tenenda Non Tollenda
  |pages=7, 276 ...llenda'', a protest against the dissolution of tenure.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The title was one of three works written by Philipps on the abolition of tenures; the
  5 KB (736 words) - 08:51, 28 October 2021
• New Virginia Justice
  |pages=8, 456, [11], xxiv, 32 ...information regarding the topic "in a single octavo volume of six hundres pages," Hening wrote, "it will be found that nothing material relating to the off
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• Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills
  |pages=viii, [11], 254, [38] ...oards. Previous owner's names on front pastedown, front free endpaper, and title page have been struck through. Purchased from Black Swan Books, Inc.
  6 KB (907 words) - 11:03, 25 August 2023
• Lex Testamentaria
  |pages=[12], 578, [12] ...finitive ties to Wythe. It does include the signature "Tho. Juckes" on the title page. The Wolf Law Library followed the suggestions of Brown and LibraryThi
  5 KB (647 words) - 09:40, 22 June 2023
• Treatise of Testaments and Last Wills
  |pages=[16], 567, [12] ...known. Folio editions were published in 1728 and 1743.<ref>''English Short Title Catalog'', http://estc.bl.uk, search of "Swinburne" and "Wills" reveals onl
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• Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
  |pages=viii, 454, [12] ...George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing list this title.
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• Pursuits of Literature
  |pages=2 p. ℓ., 2 p., 1 ℓ., xxxi, 381 Bound in original full-leather covers with gilt title on read leather spine label. Includes the bookplate of the Rev. John Willia
  4 KB (614 words) - 13:36, 26 October 2021
• Idylliums of Theocritus
  |pages=lvi, [12], 288 ...s. 8vo." and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] He later sold a copy of the same title to the Library of Congress in 1815, but it no longer exists to verify Wythe
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• Works of Francis Bacon
  ...ds. Has maroon label with gold title stamp and black and red printed title pages with a unique engraved frontispiece in volumes one two and three. Edges of
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• Dionysiou Longinou Peri Hupsous, Kai Talla Heuriskomena
  |pages=[26], 408, [12] ...ionysiouLonginouPeriHupsous1694HalfTitle.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Half-title.</center>]]This Greek literary treatise ''On the Sublime'' is steeped in my
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• Acts of Assembly, Now in Force, in the Colony of Virginia
  |pages=577 ...period style. Includes previous owner's signature "John Abernethie" on the title page and "J. Abernethie, Ap. 1778." on the first page of text.
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• Collection of All Such Public Acts of the General Assembly, and Ordinances of the Conventions of Virginia
  |pages=235 ..., 389.</ref> A copy at the Library of Virginia includes his signature. The title may also appear in [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] [[Jefferson Inve
  6 KB (925 words) - 09:14, 26 September 2022
• New Law-Dictionary
  |pages=[4], 4, [764] ..., raised bands, with blind ornaments and lettering piece on the spine. The title page includes signatures of previous owners. Purchased from The Lawbook Exc
  5 KB (708 words) - 15:42, 11 October 2021
• Epitome of All the Common and Statute Laws of this Nation, Now in Force
  |pages=12, 1131 ...d in period style with raised bands and lettering pieces. Original head of title page missing and replaced by modern period-style copy. Includes marginalia
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• Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates for the Counties and Corporations in the Colony of Virginia
  |pages=59 ...75Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|350px|<center>Inscription: ''Mr. Wythe'' [?], title page.</center>]]
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• Caii Julii Caesaris et A. Hirtii de Rebus a Caesare Gestis Commentarii
  |pages=[4], 378, [13] ...rge Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include this title and edition as the one intended by Jefferson's notation. The Wolf Law Libra
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• Historiarum Mirabilium Auctores Graeci
  |pages=[20], 174, [10], 210, [10], 190 ...edges and inner dentelles. The printer's device has been excised from the title page and replaced with a window-mounted manuscript detailing the contents.
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• Spartan Lessons
  |pages=xxvii, 30 ...ilt lettering. Includes marbled endpapers and pencil inscription "1579" on title page.
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• Anglo-Saxon Version, from the Historian Orosius
  ...rk. The Wolf Law Library followed their suggestions and purchased the 1773 title. ...xonVersion1773v1Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, half-title page, volume one.</center>]]
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