[Rarebooks] FS: Finely bound WORKS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON in 12 volumes

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new Spring Catalog of 50 select items now posted on our home page:

JEFFERSON, Thomas. THE WORKS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. New York & London: G. 
P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Limited Edition. The Connoisseur's Federal 
Edition limited to 400 numbered sets with the printed signature of the 
publisher, this being copy 160. Complete in 12 large paper octavo 
(6-1/4" x 9-5/8") volumes bound in 3/4 black morocco leather, spines 
with five raised bands ruled and ornamented in gilt with contrasting 
leather spine labels, pale marbled paper boards and matching marbled 
endpapers, top edge gilt with others uncut, boards ruled in gilt. 
Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford with the text printed on 
heavy rag laid finished paper. Illustrated with fine full-page 
portraits, facsimiles, and maps. Ford's edition of THE WRITINGS OF 
THOMAS JEFFERSON is still regarded as one of the monuments of American 
historical scholarship, setting the standard for documentary editing for 
half a century. The G. P. Putnam Knickerbocker Press bindery in New York 
bound only a small portion of this Jefferson edition of 1000 sets in the 
publisher's leather. The edition itself was divided into two issues: the 
"Collector's Federal Edition" limited to 600 sets and the "Connoisseur's 
Federal Edition" limited to 400 sets. Probably no more than 200 to 300 
sets of either issue were ordered by the subscribers to be bound in 
leather. Today, sets bound in standard blue cloth are far more common 
than this leather issue.  All volumes uniformly rebacked in high quality 
morocco in period style. Some wear and scuffing at board edges and 
corners. Near Fine, contents bright and fresh.

This famous and elegant Paul Leicester Ford compilation of Jefferson's 
WORKS was first issued by Putnam in a smaller set in 1892. Putnam issued 
this Federal Edition in 1904 as a commemorative edition for the editor 
who, at the age of 37, was murdered in his Manhattan home by his 
brother, Malcolm Webster Ford, at one time the most famous amateur 
athlete in the United States, who then committed suicide. (#016974)    
     $5,000.00

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