Jefferson literally extracted the passages he wished to include from these two volumes of Jacob Johnson's 1804 imprint of the King James New Testament. In 1920, the Cohen family donated the books, which Adler had located in their relative's library many years before.
It is difficult to describe how one faces the prospect of taking apart a national treasure. Of course, in order to reach the level of craftsmanship required, there are years of education and practice required, but that doesn't begin to fully describe it.
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.
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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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