Heading: (Presidents, 1801)
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Title: Notes on the State of Virginia
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:John Thompson for R.T. Rawle
Date Published: 1801
Description:

[4], 436, [blank], 56 pp. Portrait frontispiece, large engraved folding map of Virginia, map of Madison's cave, folding engraved view of the Natural Bridge in Virginia, folding table of the Indians in Virginia, and map of the Ohio River near Pittsburgh. This edition with the appendix on the murder of Logan's family and printing Jefferson's inaugural speech of 4 March 1801. (8vo) 21x13.5 cm (8¼x5"), period tree calf with newer calf spine, spine decorated in gilt with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. "First Hot-Pressed Edition."

Comprehensive lifetime edition of Thomas Jefferson's most important book. This edition is apparently the first to include the appendix on the murder of Logan's family and the first to include the speech ("We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We Are All Republicans; We Are All Federalists"). "Unquestionably the best of the early American editions" (Verner, A Further Checklist of the Separate Editions of Jefferson's Notes, 1950). The folding map was prepared especially for this edition. Howes J78; Sabin 35903.

Light rubbing to edges; plate at pp. 44 (natural bridge) is a facsimile, scattered foxing affecting map and some plates; very good.