This piece, with the same author’s
Remarks on the history of England
,
Letters on the study and use of history
, and
A Collection of political tracts
, no. 165-168 in the 1815 catalogue, are all marked missing in the working copy of that catalogue and are not checked as having
been received. The same numbers are included in a manuscript list of books missing from the “Congress Library” made at a later
date.
Jefferson’s copy of one of these books,
A Collection of political tracts, is now in the Library of Congress, see no. 2735, but has been rebound. It is not possible to determine whether this was one of the books sent to the Washington Library and
subsequently returned, or whether it was merely mislaid. The other three books are still missing. The entries, including that
for
A Collection of political tracts, were omitted from the later volumes of the Library of Congress catalogues.
For Jefferson’s opinion of Bolingbroke’s writing style see no. 1265.
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J. 176
[L
d. Bolingbroke’s
] Craftsman.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 105. no. 171, The Craftsman, 2 v 8vo.
[SAINT-JOHN,
Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.]
The Craftsman: being a critique on the times. By Caleb D’Anvers, of Grays-Inn, Esq; the
third edition.
London: printed for
R. Francklin . . .
mdccxxvii
. [Price
1 s.] [1727.]
DA500 .C82
2 vol. 8vo. 214 and 241 leaves, the first volume in fours, the second in eights. The title-page of Volume II varies from that
of Volume I.
Halkett and Laing I, 450.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Rebound in ruby buckram in 1909 by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
At the end of the first volume is bound:
Remarks on a late book, intitled, An Essay on the publick debts of this Kingdom, &c. in which the evil tendency of that book,
and the design of its author, are fully detected and exposed . . . In a letter to a member of the House of Commons.
London: printed for
A. Moore,
1727. (Price
One Shilling.)
8vo. 32 leaves in fours.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Nathaniel Gould was the author of the
Essay on the publick debts of this Kingdom
.
The Craftsman was a political paper, against Walpole’s administration, the first number issued on December 5, 1726, edited by Nicholas Amhurst under the pseudonym Caleb D’Anvers, of Gray’s Inn, Esq; Bolingbroke and William Pulteney, afterwards Earl of Bath, were the chief contributors. This edition in two volumes contains 85 numbers, covering the years
1726, 1727. Later editions were issued in 14 numbers.
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177
[L
d. Bolingbroke’s
] Oldcastle’s remarks on y
e hist. of England.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 166, as above.
SAINT-JOHN,
Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.
Remarks on the history of England. From the minutes of Humphrey Oldcastle.
This book is now missing from the Jefferson collection.
See the note to no. 2731 above.
The
Remarks were reprinted from
The Craftsman
.
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