Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Four volumes. An early collected edition of Jefferson’s writings, compiled by his grandson and first published in Charlottesville in 1829. Includes Jefferson’s autobiographical memoir, correspondence, and political memoranda known as the Anas. With an engraved portrait by J. B. Longacre after Gilbert Stuart and a folding facsimile of Jefferson’s manuscript draft of the Declaration of Independence.

Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo. Original plum cloth-backed paper-covered boards, retaining the printed paper spine labels; edges untrimmed. Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830. #11518.
Very good overall, with faded spines, rubbing and soiling to boards, wear to corners and spine ends, and minor chipping to labels. Contents bright and clean, with foxing and offsetting largely confined to the preliminary leaves, most noticeably the portrait offsetting on the title page of Volume I. Early ink ownership inscriptions of “Jon Mason” to the title pages.