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Thomas Wight (died ca. 1608〔''A Quantitative Analysis of the London Book Trade 1614–1618'', David L. Gants, Studies in Bibliography – Volume 55, 2002, pp. 185–213 gives a date of 1605 for Wight's death.〕) was a bookseller, publisher and draper in London. Wight published many important books, including many of the earliest law books in English. ==Career== Together with his father, the draper John Wight, he published seven editions of William Bourne's book ''A Regiment for the Sea'',〔''The Beginnings of Maritime Publishing in England, 1528–1640'', Thomas R. Adams, The Library: Transactions of the Biblioraphic Society, s6-14: 207–220, 1992.〕〔''A Regiment for the sea.'', William Bourne, Imprinted at London: By T. Est, for Thomas Wight, 1592 (log for ships speed, cross-staff, astrolabe.)〕 the first purely English navigational text. By time Wight published Bourne's book, he was primarily a publisher, and became part of a monopoly for printing law books in 1599. He published many of the first printed English law books, including Fulbeck (1600), discussing study methods for law students, techniques for arguing a case, and suggestions for further reading. Pulton (1600), also published by Wight the same year, was the first book to attempt to summarise English criminal law. Fulbecke (1602) was one of the first books on international law. Saint German (1604) was first published in Latin in 1523, and attempts to describe English law through a dialogue between a churchman and a student of English common law. It ponders the nature of law, its religious and moral standards, and jurisdiction of Parliament. Manwood (1598) summarises the laws of the forest, known as ''Carta de Foresta''; this was of key interest to English gentlemen, and went through numerous reprintings. Kitchin (1598) described manorial law, land law, and agrarian law. Wight published copies of the "Yearbooks", notes by law students which were the earliest English legal reports dating back to the eleventh century.〔Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law V'': 357–377; Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography'' (1847) 756. Sweet & Maxwell, ''A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I'': 311 (3), 312 (14). Pollard and Redgrave, ''Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland 9679'', 1479. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) II: 976.〕 Wight was also a prominent figure in the early discussions of copyright law.〔''Press Control and Copyright in the 16th and 17th Centuries'', W. S. Holdsworth, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 29, No. 8 (Jun. 1920), pp. 841–858〕 Edmund Weaver, another famous London book publisher and bookseller, started as Wight's apprentice, and took over the business when Wight died. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Wight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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