Jefferson and the Rights of Man.

MALONE, Dumas.

$600.00

Item Number: 145265

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.

First edition of the second volume in Malone’s landmark work on Jefferson, from the library of Archibald Bolling Shepperson. Octavo, original navy cloth with gilt titles to the spine and Thomas Jefferson’s seal in gilt to the front panel, frontispiece of Jefferson at the Dawn of the French Revolution by Houdon. Illustrated with fifteen black-and-white photographed portraits and documents. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To the Sheps with love from The Malones – Sept. 25, 1951.” The recipient, Archibald Bolling Shepperson was a professor of English at the University of Virginia, the author behind ‘The Novel in Motley: A History of the Burlesque Novel in English,’ and an editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review where Malone has published several essays on American history and politics. Very good in a good dust jacket. Toning to the extremities of the dust jacket, a few small losses to the crown and foot of the dust jacket spine, and a crease to the front flap of the dust jacket. Some toning to the top edge, front, and rear pastedown, dulling to the spine gilt. Shepperson’s bookplate to the front pastedown. Jacket design by Samuel Bryant.

Published between 1948 and 1981, Malone’s Jefferson and His Time is a six-volume biography of American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson. Malone’s work on the series earned him the reputation as "the world's leading Jefferson scholar." The second volume in the series is devoted to the middle years with Jefferson serving as minister to France and cultivating his interests in the blossoming American government.