178
[L
d. Bolingbroke’s
] l
(
~r
)es on the Study of history.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 167, as above, with reading
Letters.
SAINT-JOHN,
Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.
Letters on the study and use of history. By the late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.
This book is no longer in the Jefferson collection. See the note to no. 2731 above.
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J. 179
[L
d. Bolingbroke’s
] tracts.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 168, as above,
8vo.
[SAINT-JOHN,
Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.]
A Collection of political tracts. The
second edition.
London: printed for
R. Francklin,
mdccxlviii
. [1748]
DA503 1748 .B72
8vo. 200 leaves in eights.
Halkett and Laing I, 372.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 612.
Rebound in ruby buckram by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
This copy is one of the four books by Bolingbroke reported missing in the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue. See the note
to no. 2731 above.
The
Collection contains
The Occasional Writer
,
The Case of Dunkirk consider’d
, and various papers reprinted from
The Craftsman
.
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180
[L
d. Bolingbroke’s
] dissertation on parties.
1815 Catalogue, page 94, no. 169, as above,
8vo.
[SAINT-JOHN,
Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.]
A dissertation upon parties; in several letters to Caleb d’Anvers, Esq; dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
. . . the
eighth edition.
London: printed for
R. Francklin,
m.dcc.liv.
[1754.]
DA44 .B66
8vo. 197 leaves, engraved frontispiece, publisher’s advertisement on the verso of the dedication leaf.
Halkett and Laing II, 94.
This edition not in the
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
This is a reprint from
The Craftsman
, October 27, 1733, to December 21, 1734. The first separate edition was published in 1735. Caleb d’Anvers was the pseudonym
of the editor of
The Craftsman, Nicholas Amhurst.
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181
[L
d. Bolingbroke’s
] Patriot king.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 170, as above,
8vo.
Jefferson’s copy of this work is no longer extant in the Library of Congress. It was probably this book and not the
Collection of Tracts
that should have been marked missing in the 1815 catalogue. See no. 2731 above.
From the catalogue information available, as given above, it is not possible to determine which edition was in Jefferson’s
library. The title of the authorized editions reads:
Letters on the spirit of patriotism: on the idea of a patriot king; and on the state of parties, at the accession of King
George the First
.
In that Jefferson, followed by the Library of Congress printed catalogues, calls only for the
Patriot King, it is possible that he was the owner of one of the copies of the edition edited by Alexander Pope, with the title
The Idea of a Patriot King, which was printed, though never published, in 1741, and of which nearly all copies were burned. The 1831 edition of the
Library of Congress catalogues is the last to contain the entry for this book.
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