Description
First edition of The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson by Samuel M. Smucker. Octavo, xiii, [14]-400pp, 8pp ads. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover, some foxing to illustration. Presentation inscription on title page. Some toning, but overall clean text. (Sabin 77709) A good example of this scarce early work on Thomas Jefferson.
Comments: In the scarce work by Samuel Smucker, he endeavored to write a nonpartisan book about the life of Thomas Jefferson, looking to neither “indiscriminately praise or wholesale censure Jefferson.”
