Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) GRAY, IRON (Pseudonym of Abel Charles Thomas). The Gospel of Freedom: A Primer of Freedom. 26 half-page engravings on twenty-six unnumbered pages, accompanied by anti-slavery verses. Small 8vo, original robin's egg blue wrappers; front cover discolored; extremities lightly rubbed; internally fresh. New York: T.W. Strong, (1864)

Additional Details

first edition, scarce. An unusual juvenile with some rather extraordinary engravings. Images include a slave being attacked by an enormous hound, a slave woman being whipped, an ex-slave being kidnapped etc. Beneath these engravings are verses to accompany the anti-slavery alphabet and factual footnotes on slavery.