(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) LINCOLN ABRAHAM Emancipation Proclam

Sale 2171 - Lot 63

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Emancipation Proclamation. Broadside, 17x14 inches; considerable edge-wear and several one inch closed tears to the wide, blank margins; needs conservation. Chicago: Rufus T. Blanchard, 1864

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One of the best and rarest of a number of highly decorative versions of the Proclamation published over a few years following its issue in January 1863. "The type is a conglomerate mixture of every font in the composing room. The background is tinted green or in a variant blue, the present example with white stars, while the border of roses and oak leaves is tinted red and green." From the bibliography of the Emancipation Proclamation by Charles Eberstadt, No. 17.