30
History of the devil.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 139, no. 22, as above, but beginning
The.
DEFOE,
Daniel.
The Political History of the Devil, As well Ancient as Modern. In Two Parts. I. Containing a State of the Devil’s Circumstances,
and the Various Turns in his affairs, from his Expulsion out of Heaven, to the Creation of Man. With remarks on the Several
Mistakes concerning the Reason and Manner of his Fall. Also his Proceedings with Mankind, ever since Adam, to the first planting
of the Christian Religion in the World. Part II. Containing his more Private Conduct down to the present Times; His Government,
his Appearances, his Manner of Working, and the Tools he works with.
London,
1770.
12mo. A copy of this edition was not available for collation.
Lowndes II, 620.
Stace, page 10.
Daniel Defoe, 1661?-1731, English journalist and novelist, first published this work in May, 1726. This edition of 1770 is the
sixth.
[4334]
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Sterne’s sentimental journey.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 139, no. 21, as above.
STERNE,
Laurence.
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick . . . A New Edition.
London: Printed for
T. Becket and
P. A. De Hondt,
mdcclxx
. [1770.]
2 vol. 12mo. A copy of this edition was not available.
Lowndes V, 2509.
This edition not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit., not in Block, and not in Cross.
In the absence of Jefferson’s own copies, it is not absolutely clear from the catalogues which volumes of Sterne’s Sentimental
Journey and other works he owned or sold to Congress. His dated manuscript catalogue lists in this chapter
Sterne’s sentimenal journey. 2. v. 12
mo.
and
Sterne’s
Tristram Shandy. 4. v. 12
mo.
and in the chapter headed Polygraphical (see chapter 44 below), he lists
Sterne’s works. 5. v. 12
mo.
. In his undated manuscript catalogue Jefferson lists in this chapter (his 39, our 34) the works in
5. v. 12mo, price 12/-. This is probably the set bought through Trumbull, see the correspondence below, for 8/6, the additional sum being for the
binding.
The Library of Congress 1815 Catalogue lists in chapter 34:
no. 20 [Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, in his works, 4 v 12mo]
no. 21 Sterne’s Sentimental Journey 2 v 12mo
and in Chapter 44, unnumbered
[Sterne’s works, 5 v 12mo] see C 34, No. 20
Sterne’s works do not appear in Chapter 44 in any of the later catalogues.
In Chapter 34, the Catalogue of 1831 lists
J. 23 Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, 2 v. 12mo
J. 22 ----- Tristram Shandy, 1st, 2d, and 4th v. 12mo
In the later catalogues the entry for the Sentimental Journey is the same with the addition of the date and place of printing,
London, 1770, and is the only entry ascribed to the Jefferson collection. The later catalogues call for Sterne’s Works; with
the Life of the Author. v. 1, 2, and 4, 12mo. London, 1780.
Although this edition is not attributed to the Jefferson collection in any catalogue after that of 1815, the lack of volume
3 almost proves it to be Jefferson’s. In the contemporary working copy of the 1815 Catalogue, the entry for Tristram Shandy,
in Sterne’s works, has the annotation
missing written beside it in ink, and that volume is included in the manuscript list of books missing from the Library of Congress
made at a later date.
The first edition in octavo of the Sentimental Journey was published in London in 1782, the earlier ones being in duodecimo.
Although the editions credited to the Jefferson collection in his own and the Library of Congress catalogues are all in duodecimo,
he must have had one in larger format, for in 1787, 1789, and 1804,
