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From the first printed edition of the first English law treatise to presentation volumes inscribed by some of the greatest legal scholars of the twentieth century, the Rare Book Collection covers every imaginable topic--from the Institutes of Justinian to case law and the foundations of the American judicial system. It encompasses a broad range of formats, including pleadings prepared and signed by Attorney George Wythe in 1746, a piece of the "Charter Oak" (the historic tree used in 1693 to designate the boundary of the lands chosen for establishment of the "place of universal learning" which would become the College of William and Mary), the family Bible of Chief Justice John Marshall, and numerous influential works prepared by faculty and alumni of the College and Law School.