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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. Phila.: R.T. Rawle, 1801. [4], 436, 56pp. plus three maps (one folding), folding plate, folding table, and frontispiece portrait. Orig. calf, rebacked in matching gilt-ruled calf, orig. red-morocco spine label laid down. Folding plate with foxing, offsetting from the portrait and the maps. Light toning to the exterior few leaves, else a very good copy with all maps and plates. HOWES J-78. Clark I:262. Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye, p. 51. Reese, Federal Hundred 6 (ref). One of the most handsome American editions of Jefferson, and the first issued after his accession to the presidency, noted on the title as the "First Hot-Pressed Edition." With the armorial bookplate of "T. J. Coolidge Jr." on the front pastedown. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. (1863-1912), a Boston banker, was Thomas Jefferson's great-grandson. The portrait, pictured and described in Cunningham's The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye was engraved by William Harrison, Jr., after a print by Mathew Carey. It is one of the relatively few engraved images of Jefferson. This edition adds Jefferson's famous first inaugural address ("we are all Republicans, we are all Federalists"). An appendix adds his correspondence relating to the Logan massacre, a horrific frontier tale of the murder of a friendly Indian family in southwest Virginia during Lord Dunmore's War in 1774. This copy also contains a large folding map, A Map of the State of Virginia, described as "Compiled for Rawle's Hot-pressed Edition of Jefferson's Notes." The folding plate is "A View of the Natural Bridge in Virginia.".