Source: http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/transcripts/skipwith/skipwith.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 02:35:04+00:00

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Jefferson's book recommendations in his letter to Robert Skipwith dated August 3, 1771 from Monticello. PTJ 1:76-81 (transcription of full letter from Founders Online). See also digitized images of letter and enclosure with book recommendations.
Robert Skipwith, brother-in-law of Martha Wayles Skelton (Jefferson's bride-to-be), had requested in a letter to Jefferson dated July 17, 1771, for a list of recommended books "suited to the capacity of a common reader who understands but little of the classicks and who has not leisure for any intricate or tedious study. Let them be improving as well as amusing and among the rest let there be Hume's history of England, the new edition of Shakespear, the short Roman history you mentioned and all Sterne's works."
Organized under brief subject categories, each entry consists of a short title, followed by number of volumes, size, and price either in shillings (/) or in pound sterling (£). In some cases, Jefferson included publisher and date information to indicate a specific edition.
these were written by Smollett.
CRITICISM ON THE FINE ARTS.
Bayle’s Dictionary. 5 v. fol. £ 7.10.
Davila. by Farneworth. 2 v. 4 to. £ 1.10.
Hume’s history of England. 8 v. 8 vo. £ 2.8.
Clarendon’s history of the rebellion. 6 v. 8 vo. £ 1.10.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. NATURAL HISTORY &c.
Nature displayed. Eng. 7 v. 12 mo.
Millar’s Gardener’s dict. fol. £ 2.10.
Buffon’s natural history. Eng. £ 2.10.
Voltaire’s works. Eng. £ 4.
Owen’s Dict. of arts & sciences 4 v. 8 vo. £ 2.

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