Lot 215
Book From Thomas Jefferson's Library. The Works of Alexander Pope. Volume VI. Imitations of Horace, Epistles. London: Knapton, 1751. Original calf, worn, lacks endpapers. With the bookplate of Reuben Skelton, Hanover Co., Virginia. Jefferson acquired Skelton's books in 1774 with the library of his father in-law John Wayles whose third wife Elizabeth was Skelton's widow. Skelton was also the brother of Martha Jefferson's first husband, Bathurst Skelton. With Jefferson's own secret library mark, a small "T" by the signature mark "I" (there being no signature "J" in the book), on page 113. Jefferson's friend John Bernard is quoted as saying "Shakespeare and Pope [Jefferson] said, gave him the perfection of imagination and judgment, both displaying more knowledge of the human heart - the true province of poetry-than he could elsewhere find."
Estimated Value $3,000 - 5,000.
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