JEFFERSON, Thomas.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do": FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLECTION OF JEFFERSON’S WRITINGS
Charlottesville, VA.: F. Carr and Co., 1829.
$5,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-81030
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First edition of the first published collection of Jefferson’s writings, an impressive four-volume work edited by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, in the rare original boards. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth-backed boards, paper spine labels. With four-page folding facsimile of Jefferson’s manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, and engraved frontispiece portrait after Gilbert Stuart in Volume I & 4. In very good condition, bookplates, pages untrimmed and largely unopened. Housed in a two custom half morocco clamshell boxes. An exceptional example.
Volume one was written by Jefferson at age 77, and includes a journal kept by him while Secretary of State during Washington’s administration. "The rest consists exclusively of a voluminous correspondence, ranging from 1775, after blood had been spilt in Boston, to June 1826, only ten days before his death" (Sabin).
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
$5,500.00
Out of Stock
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