Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. The first widely disseminated printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. 3 pages, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, on one folded sheet; stitch holes, minor wear on top edge. Washington, 24 [29?] September 1862

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The fourth preliminary edition of the Emancipation Proclamation, months before it was officially declared. The original manuscript draft was written by the President on 21 September 1862. It was signed by Lincoln and Seward on the 22nd and a first printed version sent to important government figures. This edition is headed General Orders No. 139, and was issued to regimental commanders in the military. It is signed in type by Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, and Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas. The order to publish was given on 24 September, but Eberstadt (Emancipation Proclamation 4) surmises that it was actually printed a few days later.