William Wallis Woodward (ca. 1770–1837), a printer, bookseller, and stationer, operated a shop in Philadelphia from 1793 until early in the 1830s. He specialized in the publication of religious works with broad interdenominational appeal (H. Glenn Brown and Maude O. Brown, A Directory of the Book-Arts and Book Trade in Philadelphia to 1820 [1950], 127; Rosalind Remer, Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic [1996], 73, 91, 132, 186n; Washington National Intelligencer, 23 Jan. 1837).

TJ paid Woodward 20 dolls. for the first American edition of Thomas Scott’s Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, 5 vols. (Philadelphia, 1804–09; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 1471) on 21 Dec. 1806 (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1195). In 1811 Woodward published A Chronological Table and Scriptural Maps, to Accompany the Rev. Dr. Thomas Scott’s Family Bible, a work which included a concordance and religious dictionary by John Butterworth. The circular enclosed above announced that both another edition of Scott’s Bible and a ten-volume commentary by John gill on the Old and New Testaments would “shortly go to Press,” with Woodward adding by hand that production of the latter would begin “next week.” Woodward’s handwritten explanations also advised TJ that the six-volume duodecimo edition of The Works Complete of the Rev. James Hervey would cost subscribers $1 per volume, with three volumes completed and the others to be “out in the Fall,” and that Saurin’s Dissertations, in an anticipated six to eight octavo volumes with plates, “will be a Popular Theological Work.”