63
Swift’s works.
1815 Catalogue, p. 147, no. 38. Swift’s Works, 12 v 12mo.
There is no further information as to which edition of the works of Jonathan Swift was in Jefferson’s library. The entry is
marked
missing in the contemporary working copy of the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1815, and is omitted from the later catalogues.
The book is entered in the manuscript list of missing books made at a later date. There is no edition of Swift’s collected
works in 12 volumes 12mo in Teerink’s
Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift.
64
The World.
4. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, p. 147, no. 39, as above.
The World. By Adam Fitz-Adam. Volume the First [-Fourth] . . .
London: Printed for
R. and J. Dodsley,
m dcc lxi
. [1761.]
4 vol. 12mo. A copy of this edition [the
third] was not located for collation.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 664.
Cushing,
Initials and Pseudonyms, page 6.
Edward Moore, 1712-1757, English fabulist and dramatist, was appointed editor of
The World on its inception in 1753, through the influence of Lord Lyttleton.
The World was published weekly from 1753 to 1757, and later was reprinted in several editions. Moore, under the pseudonym of Adam Fitz-Adam,
wrote sixty-one of the two hundred and ten numbers. Other contributors included Lord Lyttleton, the Earl of Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, Soame Jenyns, Richard Owen Cambridge and others.
[4514]
65
Avenia by Thomas Branagan.
12
mo
1815 Catalogue, page 145, no. 41, as above.
BRANAGAN,
Thomas.
Avenia: or, A Tragical poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement on the Rights of Man. In Six Books,
with Notes explanatory and miscellaneous. Written in Imitation of Homer’s Iliad. By Thomas Branagan, author of A Preliminary Essay on Slavery . . .
Philadelphia: Printed for
Silas Engles, no. 248, South Third-Street; and
Samuel Wood, no. 362, Pearl-Street,
New York.
S. Engles, Printer.
1805.
First Edition. 12mo. 178 leaves, the last for the errata, preceded by 29 for the notes.
Jefferson was a subscriber to this book. In the letter written to Jefferson from Philadelphia on May 7, 1805, which accompanied
his presentation copy of his preliminary Essay [see no. 1394][.] Branagan wrote concerning this book, and requested Jefferson’s signature: “It is with great diffidence as it respects myselfe, and with distinguished deference to you, that I take the liberty to send
you a copy of my “preliminary Essay on Slavery,” being well convinced that, the subject matter of it, will attract your attention,
and perhaps; prove a stimulus to your encouraging the “Tragical Poem” which the enclosed Essay is merely intended as an introduction
too. However be that as it may, it is with enthusiastic veneration; disinterested admiration; and sincere respect for your
exalted character, that I present you the Essay and will forwarde the Poem when Published, whether you patronize me by your
respectiable signature or not--Of all the publications which may be productive of public utility, there is none more deserving
of general attention; none more intrinsically momentary to the citizens of america! than the subject matter of my
Tragical Poem. ”
