Thomas Jefferson Papers

Enclosure: Invoice of Books from Lackington, Hughes & Company, 14 March 1821

Enclosure

Invoice of Books from Lackington, Hughes & Company

London. Mar. 14. 1821.

R[.] Rush Esqr

To Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Lepard.
Grammatica Anglo Saxonica ex Hickesiano Thesauro excerpta 8o } 7. 6
Institutiones Grammaticæ Anglo-Saxonicæ et Mœso-Gothica Hickesii 4to } 1. 16.
Benson’s Saxon Vocabulary 8o br. calf 1. 8.
Thwaites Saxon Heptateuch 8o do 1. 7.
Marshall’s Saxon Gospels 4to   1. 16.
Parker’s edition of Walsingham’s history with the Aelfridi annales de 1574 fol } 4. 4.
Bede Ecc. Histy Anglo Saxon by Wheeloc 2. 2.
          in English by Stapleton 8o br calf 1. 1.
Gibson’s Saxon Chronicle 4to 2. 2 
Spelman’s life of Alfred Saxon fol. 1. 7.
Elstobs Saxon Homily 8o 1. 1.
Alfred’s Anglo-Saxon Boetius 8o 1. 10.
 
Wilkin’s Leges Anglo Saxonicæ fol 2. 4.
Wotton’s View of Hickes’s Thesaurus 4to 1. 4.
Cooperi Thesaurus fol. 1. 7.
Ancient Universal History 20 V. bds 3. 10.
Clarke’s Bib. Legum bds 8.
Owen’s Geoponics 2 Vol do 15.
Bass’s Greek Lexicon do. 3. 6
Wheatley on Gardening 8o do 8. 6
Hone’s Apocl New Testament bds. 5. 6
Spelman’s Saxon Psalter 4to 1. 7.
Packing Case lined with tin . 18.  
£ 32. 12.  

MS (MHi); in the hand of a representative of Lackington, Hughes & Company, with printed text from its letterhead rendered above in italics; damaged at seal; internal running totals at foot of recto and head of verso editorially omitted. Also enclosed in TJ to James Gibbon, 17 July 1821, and Gibbon to TJ, 21 July 1821.

Lackington, Hughes & Company grew out of a London bookshop opened by James Lackington (1746–1815) in 1774. Lackington sold remaindered books cheaply, and by 1794 his Temple of the Muses in Finsbury Square was said to stock a million volumes. When he retired in 1798 the firm’s management shifted to his third cousin George Lackington (1777–1844). Under the younger Lackington’s leadership, the business also published books and went through several partnerships and changes of name before his own retirement, after which it traded as Harding & Lepard. TJ made his first purchase from the firm during his visit to London in 1786, acquired books from its catalogues thereafter, and recommended it to Francis W. Gilmer as late as 1824 (ODNB description begins H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, 60 vols. description ends ; 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 , 1:620; Sowerby; TJ to Richard Rush, 26 Apr. 1824).

Index Entries

  • Ælfredi Magni Anglorum Regis (J. Spelman; trans. O. Walker) search
  • Ælfric of Eynsham; An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St. Gregory (trans. E. Elstob) search
  • A Greek and English Manual Lexicon to the New Testament (J. H. Bass) search
  • agriculture; books on search
  • An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St. Gregory (Ælfric of Eynsham; trans. E. Elstob) search
  • Anglo-Saxon (Old English) language; books on search
  • An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present search
  • Bass, J. H.; A Greek and English Manual Lexicon to the New Testament search
  • Bede, Saint; Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ Gentis Anglorum (ed. A. Wheelocke) search
  • Bede, Saint; The History of the Church of Englande (trans. T. Stapleton) search
  • Benson, Thomas; Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum search
  • Bible; works on search
  • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus; Consolationis Philosophiæ Libri V. Anglo-Saxonice Redditi ab Alfredo (ed. C. Rawlinson) search
  • books; dictionaries search
  • books; on agriculture search
  • books; on gardening search
  • books; on history search
  • Chronicon Saxonicum (E. Gibson) search
  • Clarke, John (bookseller); Clarke’s Bibliotheca Legum; or, Complete Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law-Books of the United Kingdom search
  • Clarke’s Bibliotheca Legum; or, Complete Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law-Books of the United Kingdom (J. Clarke) search
  • Consolationis Philosophiæ Libri V. Anglo-Saxonice Redditi ab Alfredo (A. M. S. Boethius; ed. C. Rawlinson) search
  • Cooper, Thomas (d.1594); Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ search
  • Elstob, Elizabeth; translatesAn English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St. Gregory (Ælfric of Eynsham) search
  • English language; Anglo-Saxon (Old English) search
  • gardening; books on search
  • Gibson, Edmund; Chronicon Saxonicum search
  • Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica ex Hickesiano Linguarum Septentrionalium Thesauro Excerpta (G. Hickes) search
  • Heptateuchus, Liber Job, et Evangelium Nicodemi; Anglo-Saxonice (E. Thwaites) search
  • Hickes, George; Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica ex Hickesiano Linguarum Septentrionalium Thesauro Excerpta search
  • Hickes, George; Institutiones Grammaticæ Anglo-Saxonicæ, et Mœso-Gothicæ search
  • Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ Gentis Anglorum (Bede; ed. A. Wheelocke) search
  • Hone, William; editsThe Apocryphal New Testament, being all the Gospels, Epistles and other pieces now extant search
  • Institutiones Grammaticæ Anglo-Saxonicæ, et Mœso-Gothicæ (G. Hickes) search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; Invoice from Lackington, Hughes & Company search
  • Junius, Franciscus; Quatuor D. N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquæ duæ, Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica (ed. T. Marshall) search
  • Lackington, Hughes & Company (London firm); identified search
  • Lackington, Hughes & Company (London firm); invoice from search
  • law; books on search
  • Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ Ecclesiasticæ & Civilies (D. Wilkins) search
  • Marshall, Thomas; editsQuatuor D. N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquæ duæ, Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica (F. Junius) search
  • Observations on Modern Gardening (T. Whately) search
  • Owen, Thomas; translatesΓεωπονικά. Agricultural Pursuits search
  • Parker, Matthew; editsYpodigma Nevstriæ vel Normanniæ (T. Walsingham) search
  • Quatuor D. N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquæ duæ, Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica (F. Junius; ed. T. Marshall) search
  • Rawlinson, Christopher; editsConsolationis Philosophiæ Libri V. Anglo-Saxonice Redditi ab Alfredo (A. M. S. Boethius) search
  • Rush, Richard; TJ’s account with search
  • Shelton, Maurice; translatesWotton’s Short View of George Hickes’s Grammatico-Critical and Archeological Treasure Of the Ancient Northern-Languages (W. Wotton) search
  • Somner, William; Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum search
  • Spelman, Sir John; Ælfredi Magni Anglorum Regis (trans. O. Walker) search
  • Stapleton, Thomas; translatesThe History of the Church of Englande (Bede) search
  • The Apocryphal New Testament, being all the Gospels, Epistles and other pieces now extant (ed. W. Hone) search
  • The History of the Church of Englande (Bede; trans. T. Stapleton) search
  • Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ (T. Cooper) search
  • Thwaites, Edward; Heptateuchus, Liber Job, et Evangelium Nicodemi; Anglo-Saxonice search
  • tin; lining search
  • Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum (T. Benson and W. Somner) search
  • Walker, Obadiah; translatesÆlfredi Magni Anglorum Regis (J. Spelman) search
  • Walsingham, Thomas; Ypodigma Nevstriæ vel Normanniæ (ed. M. Parker) search
  • Whately, Thomas; Observations on Modern Gardening search
  • Wheelocke, Abraham; editsHistoriæ Ecclesiasticæ Gentis Anglorum (Bede) search
  • Wilkins, David; Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ Ecclesiasticæ & Civilies search
  • Wotton, William; Wotton’s Short View of George Hickes’s Grammatico-Critical and Archeological Treasure Of the Ancient Northern-Languages (trans. M. Shelton) search
  • Wotton’s Short View of George Hickes’s Grammatico-Critical and Archeological Treasure Of the Ancient Northern-Languages (W. Wotton; trans. M. Shelton) search
  • Ypodigma Nevstriæ vel Normanniæ (T. Walsingham; ed. M. Parker) search
  • Γεωπονικά. Agricultural Pursuits (trans. T. Owen) search

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Enclosure: Invoice of Books from Lackington, Hughes & Company, 14 March 1821
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Rush, Richard
Lackington, Hughes & Company
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22 May 1821

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“Enclosure: Invoice of Books from Lackington, Hughes & Company, 14 March 1821,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-17-02-0205-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 17, 1 March to 30 November 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, pp. 196–197.]