Thomas Jefferson. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private. Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State. With Explanatory Notes, Tables of Contents, and a Copious Index to Each Volume, as well as a General Index to the Whole, by the Editor H. A. Washington. New York: Published by John C. Bricker, 1853. Nine octavo volumes. Four folding plates depicting drafts of the Declaration of Independence in Volume I. Modern three-quarter dark brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, raised bands on spines, marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. Boards and board edges a bit rubbed, backstrips modestly soiled. Text block and page edges lightly toned with sporadic foxing. Volume I has front hinge starting. Volume IV has pages 413-502 adhered via small glue residue on fore-edge. Very good.