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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
 
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
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Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Hooker’s Ecclesiastical polity. fol.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 13, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe </ref> on LibraryThing indicates this without naming a specific edition. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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</ref> lists the 1723 edition from London based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ""Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 3:14-15. [no.2334]</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the London 1723 edition.
  
 
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
 
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
 
Bound in contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, newly rebacked. Signed: "F.H. Thornton, Oct. 1912." Includes bookplate of Edward Thornton.
 
Bound in contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, newly rebacked. Signed: "F.H. Thornton, Oct. 1912." Includes bookplate of Edward Thornton.
  
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View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3621021 William & Mary's online catalog.]
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
[http://books.google.com/books?id=4oBPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]
 
[http://books.google.com/books?id=4oBPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]

Revision as of 17:39, 18 November 2013

by Richard Hooker

Bibliographic Information

Author: Richard Hooker

Title: The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: in Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Publication Info: London: Printed for John Walthoe, George Conyers, James Knapton, Robert Knaplock, J. and B. Sprint ... [and 9 others], 1723.

Edition:

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Hooker’s Ecclesiastical polity. fol. and given by Thomas Jefferson to his son-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph. We do not have enough information to conclusively identify which edition Wythe owned. George Wythe's Library[1] on LibraryThing indicates this without naming a specific edition. The Brown Bibliography[2] lists the 1723 edition from London based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.[3] The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the London 1723 edition.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, newly rebacked. Signed: "F.H. Thornton, Oct. 1912." Includes bookplate of Edward Thornton.

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

External Links

Google Books

References

  1. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 13, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
  2. 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
  3. E. Millicent Sowerby, ""Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 3:14-15. [no.2334]