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The life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth / extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French, and English by Thomas Jefferson ; with an introduction [by Cyrus Adler].

Accession number
PML 5612
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Published
Washington [D.C.] : Government Printing Office, 1904.
Notes
Facsimile reproduction of Jefferson's manscript (the original consisting of hand-written table of texts and title page, followed by cut-and-pasted print extracts of Gospel texts from various editions in the several languages, with the t.p. and "Table" in Jefferson's handwriting).
Printed in pursuance of the following concurrent resolution adopted by the Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, "That there be printed and bound, by photolithographic process, with an introduction of not to exceed twenty-five pages, to be prepared by Dr. Cyrus Adler, librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, for the use of Congress, 9,000 copies of Thomas Jefferson's Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, as the same appears in the National museum; 3,000 copies for the use of the Senate and 6,000 copies for the use of the House"--Introd.
Description
2 p.l., 7-18, [1], [184] p. : facsim., 2 folded maps ; 23 cm
Provenance
Autograph presentation copy of J.B. Foraker to Mr. J.P. Morgan with inscription on flyleaf dated Washington, Sept. 23, 1904.
Binding
Marbled leather.
Classification
Department