Thomas Jefferson's Fine Arts Library


Abbreviations

Bruce
Philip Alexander Bruce. History of the University of Virignia 5 vols. New York, 1926.

DNB
Dictionary of National Biography.

1828 Catalogue
A Catalogue of the Library of the University of Virginia. Arranged Alphabetically under Different Heads, with the Number and Size of the Volumes of Each Work, and Its Edition Specified. A Notice of Such Donations of Books as Have Been Made to the University. Charlottesville, Va., 1828.

Kean
John V. Kean. "Catalogue of the Library of the University of Virignia,: May 16, 1825. Manuscript, U. Va. Library.

Kimball
Fiske Kimball. Thomas Jefferson, Architect Boston, 1916.

N
Frederick Doveton Nichols. Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings: Compiled and with Commentary and a Check List. 2d ed. Boston and Charlottesville, Va., 1961.

Sowerby
E. Millicent Sowerby. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 5 vols. Washington, D.C., 1952-59.

Note: The capsule biogrpahis of engravers, authors, and translators have been derived from standard reference works. It has not been deemed necessary to cite these references except when a direct quotation was made.

Parentheses enclosing the abbreviation "No." and an Arabic numeral indicate one of the titles in this study.

In the Descriptive Catalogue, the books from Jefferson's personal library are indicated with an M. Those that were ordered for the University of Virginia or present before May 1825 are indicated with a U. Va.

An asterisk appearing before the library number of a title now owned by the Univesity indicates that it is located in the Rare Book Department of the Univesity Library.


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