May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 236

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) In Memoriam, Frederick Douglass. Frontispiece portrait. [4], 350 pages. 4to, publisher's gilt cloth, minor wear and moderate soiling; hinges starting; partly unopened. Philadelphia, 1897

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A printed collection of obsequies, eulogies, obituaries and other tributes from the services held in Washington and Rochester, NY and compiled from hundreds of periodicals across the globe. Includes letters from William Lloyd Garrison, Richard T. Greener, Booker T. Washington, and Emma Willard; a poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar; a piece by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, read by Susan B. Anthony; and a prayer offered by Reverend Alexander Crummell, founder of the American Negro Academy. Blockson 3098.