Copies of Lucretius in the Jefferson Library exhibit of the Library of Congress. In DC for work. This stop was pleasure. Yellow ribbons, same exact editions as Jefferson. Green ribbons, Jefferson's own books.
Library of Congress
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Excellent thank you! do you have the link for that image? I think I was aware that he had Creech, but I would love to confirm that he had the 1743 Daniel Brown edition, which IMHO is so much better written than the 1682 Creech.
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do you have the link for that image?
That's my own photo taken mere minutes before I posted.
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Very cool! If you start from the brown leather on the left and go to the red leather on the right, that's 8 total if you count Creech as one. Stephen Greenblatt records that Jefferson had "five Latin texts of De Rerum Natura, along with translations in English, Italian, and French." So the numbers don't allow for a second English translation, if in fact there are only 8. Greenblatt does not give the total sum.
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That's my own photo taken mere minutes before I posted.
Wait what? You are in DC? Then will we see some photos of you at the Jefferson Memorial?
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That's my own photo taken mere minutes before I posted.
Wait what? You are in DC? Then will we see some photos of you at the Jefferson Memorial?
Not sure if I'll make it there, but I made it to the mothership of libraries, so... Quest completed!
PS: It is called the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress after all
