(WAR OF 1812) Carey Mathew The Olive Branch; or Faults on Bo

Sale 2473 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 438

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

PHILIP FRENEAU'S REVIEW COPY (WAR OF 1812.) Carey, Mathew. The Olive Branch; or, Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic. 454 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, backstrip chipped, early stitched repair to front joint; intermittent dampstaining and foxing, several early notes on the book on endpapers (possibly by Freneau?); inscribed on title page "Presented as a mark of esteem & respect to P Freneau, Esq, by the Author." Philadelphia, September 1815

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6th edition, enlarged, of an influential work by the Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey, in which he attempted to reconcile the two American political factions in opposition to the British threat. This copy was inscribed to Philip Freneau (1752-1832), the popular author and publisher often called "The Poet of the American Revolution." We know that Freneau read and appreciated this gift--this sixth edition was published in September 1815, Freneau wrote a warm letter of appreciation on 15 October, and the letter appeared among the testimonials which prefaced the December 1815 edition: "Your Olive Branch has excited much attention, wherever people will at all read. According to an old saying, it is worth its weight in gold; and since the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, I know nothing that has issued from the American press, of equal solid utility." We've traced only one other inscribed copy of this work, an 1820 edition which Carey inscribed to Thomas Jefferson with almost the same language, which brought $36,000 at the Snider sale in 2008. Sabin 10873; Shaw & Shoemaker 34287.