Printed for the Author, and Sold, also, By Mr.
Symonds, Pater Noster Row; Mr.
Fisher, at his Library, on the Steyne, Brighton . . . Mr.
Rackham, Bury St. Edmunds, and all Booksellers [Printed by
George Hayden,
London]
1803.
PR5227 .R3 1803
2 vol. sm. 8vo., 116 and 120 leaves including the half-titles, engraved frontispiece in Vol. I by T. Greig after T. Rickman, in Vol. II by B. Reading after James Lambert, Jun.
It is not certain that this book was delivered to Congress. It is not checked as having been received in the working copy
of the Library of Congress 1815 Catalogue, but is marked missing, and the entry does not appear in any other catalogue. It
is in the manuscript list of missing books made at a later date.
Jefferson’s copy was bound for him by John March in August 1805, price $1.50 for the two volumes.
The name of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America, is in the list of subscribers to this book. Other
names of interest to this catalogue include Mr. Joel Barlow, Washington, America; Lewis Goldsmith, Esq.; General Kosciusko;
Thomas Paine, William Roscoe, John Horne Tooke and others.
Jefferson himself is referred to, and a letter from him quoted in the footnote, in the poem entitled
Stanzas. Written on the Beach, at Havre de Grace. and addressed to the Sea. On Parting with Thomas Paine. On his embarkation
for America. August, 1802.
Two of the stanzas read:
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One champion* of all that is glorious and good,
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Will greet thee sincerely I know;
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No supporter of craft, of oppression, and blood,
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The defender of liberty long he has stood; . . .
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Of tyranny only the foe.
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Yes! Jefferson, well in thy principles school’d,
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Will embrace thee with gladness of heart,
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Thy value he knows, and is not to be fool’d,
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Nor his wisdom and knowledge one moment o’errul’d
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By falshood, corruption, and art.
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The footnote to the word
champion is an
Extract of a letter from Mr. Jefferson, president of the United States, to Thomas Paine, copied from the original, 13 lines, dated from Washington, July, 1802.
Thomas Clio Rickman, 1761-1834, English bookseller, originally a Quaker, acquired the name Clio when he and his friend Thomas Paine were both
members of the Headstrong Club. Paine lodged in Rickman’s house in 1791 and 1792, and it was there that he wrote the second
part of
The Rights of Man
. Rickman afterwards wrote the
Life of Paine
.
[4450]
66
Story’s Power of Solitude.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 143, no. 33, as above.
STORY,
Joseph.
The Power of Solitude. A Poem. In Two Parts. By Joseph Story . . . A New and Improved Edition.
Salem: Published by
Barnard B. Macanulty [
C. Stebbins, printer,
Charlestown],
1804.
PS2944 .S7 P6 1804a
12mo. 132 leaves, engraved frontispiece by J. Akin after Corne, printer’s imprint on the back of the title. The Power of Solitude is followed by Notes and Fugitive Poems, the latter with
a half-title.
Sabin 92316.
This edition not in Wegelin.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him by the author, who wrote from Salem, Massachusetts, on January 14, 1806: “I have the honor to send herewith by the mail for your acceptance, two volumes, entitled the “Power of Solitude”, and a “Selection
of Pleadings”; the former the amusement of my juvenile years, the latter the occasional effort of my professional leisure.
In asking your acceptance of them I confess myself duly admonished of their errors and imbecillities, and deeply impressed
with a sense that they require all the indulgence of criticism, and all the candor of experience. Whatever may be their merit,
my motive in the present offer is to express a feeble testimony of the high respect which I entertain for those talents which
from the dawn of the revolution to the present moment have been vigorously ”
