[Jefferson, Thomas]
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Charlottesville, (Virginia): Published by F. Carr, and Co., 1829. In four volumes. First edition. viii, (ii), 466; (iv), 500; (iv), 519; (iv), 532 pp. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. With half-titles in each volume, and four folding facsimile leaves in rear of Vol. IV reproducing Jefferson's handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Jefferson by J.B. Longacre after Gilbert Stuart in first volume. Quarter brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, boards and extremities lightly rubbed, light scratching and small chipping to spines; all edges trimmed; marbled endpapers; armorial book-plate of banker Oliver Warren Shaw (1834-1920) on front paste-down of each volume; ownership signature of New York District Attorney David Gustavus Rollins, Jr. (1842-97) at head of each title-page; contemporary ownership signature of A. Robbins on p. 22 of each volume; light to heavy foxing throughout set; pp. 241-248 and 289-296 in third volume darkened. Howes R-60; Sabin 35891; Shaw & Shoemaker 39133

First edition set of Thomas Jefferson's writings, the first of his collected works published following his death in 1826. "These volumes begin with a short fragment concerning (Jefferson) himself, drawn up at the age of seventy-seven; and close with a still shorter 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 at Boston, to June 1826, ten days only before his death, so appropriately fixed for the fiftieth anniversary of American Independence." (Sabin).