Jefferson the Virginian.

MALONE, Dumas.

$600.00

Item Number: 145266

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948.

First edition of the first 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 The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and portraits. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Philippa and Shep, gratefully and affectionately, Dumas April 13, 1948,” and again on the flyleaf after the title page, “For Philippa and Shep, gratefully and affectionately, Dumas Malone.” 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.  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.