![This volume, created by Thomas Jefferson in 1820, is an 84-page assemblage of passages from the first four books of the New Testament. It was the work of Jefferson's own hands and a product of his extraordinary mind. It was a personal exercise in understanding Jesus's moral teachings.](/JeffersonBible/images/welcome-message.png)
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Continue reading...Book conservators always want to know how a book was bound. Before you can even think about how to fix something, you first have to know how it was made.
Watch the video...The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition, is a full-color facsimile created from high-resolution digital photographs of recently conserved and rebound pages.
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