68
Favole e Novelle del Pignotti.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 38, as above.
PIGNOTTI,
Lorenzo.
Favole e Novelle del Dot. Pignotti.
There is no indication as to which edition of this work was in Jefferson’s library, or whether the copy was ever delivered
to Congress. The entry is marked missing in the contemporary working copy of the 1815 Catalogue, and has not the check mark
showing that the book had been received. It is entered in the manuscript list of missing books made later, and the entry is
omitted from all subsequent catalogues. The first edition in duodecimo was published in Londra in 1784, and several editions
in that format were issued from different presses in Italy.
Lorenzo Pignotti, 1739-1812, Italian author, published the first edition of his
Favole e Novelle in Pisa in 1782.
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69
the Lawyer or Man as he ought not to be.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 139, no. 58, as above, but reading
12mo.
[WATTERSTON,
George.]
The Lawyer, or Man as he ought not to be. A Tale.
Pittsburgh: Printed for and published by
Zadok Cramer, and sold at his Bookstore (Franklin’s Head) Market street,
1808.
PS3157 .W5 L3
First Edition. 12mo. 118 leaves, engraved frontispiece by Kneass.
Sabin 102163.
Wright 2683.
This work was placed by Jefferson in Chapter 24, Politics, but was reclassified in the 1815 and later Library of Congress catalogues into this chapter.
George Watterston, 1783-1854, Librarian of Congress from 1815 to 1829, was the compiler of the Catalogue of the Library of the United States,
1815, which, with Jefferson’s manuscript catalogues, is the chief work on which this Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson is founded.
The Lawyer, or man as he ought not to be was his first publication, and was reprinted in a second edition in 1829.
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70
Ossian by Blair
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 55, as above.
MACPHERSON,
James.
The Poems of Ossian. Translated by James Macpherson, Esq; in
Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. A New Edition.
London: Printed for
W. Strahan; and
T. Cadell,
m dcc lxxxiv [-m dcc lxxxv]
. [1784-5.]
2 vol. 8vo. 210 and 22 leaves; the Poems of Ossian finish on page 209 in Volume II, and are followed by three dissertations,
each with a half-title: A Dissertation concerning the Æra of Ossian, A Dissertation concerning the Poems of Ossian, and A
Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal. By Hugh Blair, D.D. . . .
Lowndes III, 1736.
This edition not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Black, page 11.
This edition of 1784-5 is the one credited to the Jefferson collection in the later Library of Congress catalogues. Jefferson
bought a copy of Ossian’s Poems in 2 vol. on May 10, 1802, from
William Duane, price $
2.50. This may have been the copy, described as being in 18mo, bound for him in calf, gilt, cost $1.25, by John March on June
7, 1803. A copy in 2 volumes 8vo was bound for him in calf, gilt, cost 2 dollars, by John March on June 30, 1807.
Jefferson’s interest in the poems of Ossian began at an early age. On February 25, 1773, he wrote to Charles McPherson of
Edinburgh: “
Encouraged by the small acquaintance which I had the pleasure of having contracted with you during your residence in this
country I take the liberty of making the present application to you. I understood you were related to the gentleman of your
name Mr James Macpherson to whom the world is so much indebted for the
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