Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson's Library: a Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order.

Originally published: Washington: Library of Congress. 1989. [10], 149 pp. Sold to the Library of Congress in 1815 to replace volumes burned by the British during their occupation
of Washington, Jefferson s library, comprising 6,700, volumes was one of the fi nest in the United States.
The taxonomically arranged catalogue that accompanied these books was a remarkable work, one that offered great insight into the broad and systematic nature of Jefferson's mind. Unfortunately, it was lost. Using Jefferson's notes and the first edition of the Library of Congress catalogue, Gilreath and Wilson
recreated Jefferson's original compilation. It is valuable both for its insights into Jefferson s mind and as
a guide to the titles one would want to include in a first-class American library of the period.