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JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Notes on the State of Virginia, with an Appendix. New York: M. L. & W. A. Davis for Furman & Loudon, 1801.
8° (217 x 123 mm). Engraved frontispiece folding map, engraved folding plate and folding chart (lacking portrait frontispiece, some browning and offsetting). Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spine).
Tenth edition. A New York edition with the map of Virginia. “The value of Jefferson's Notes as a survey of Virginia at the close of the Revolution and for his comments on certain conditions of political and social importance has long been recognized by historical scholars, as it was by some of his contemporaries” (Clark). this edition includes the famed Appendix relative to the murder of Logan's family (pp. [341]-392), which was first printed separately in 1800, “as an answer to the charge that Jefferson had invented the narrative in the Notes to cover the alleged literary imposture of Logan's speech” (Field, p. 190). Clark Old South 262; Howes J-78; Sabin 35901.