A wonderful item, being Horace Greeley's personal assemblage of the Tribune and Whig Almanac for the years leading up to and including the Civil War.
Very handsomely presented in a full leather binding, tooled deeply on front and rear cover “Horace Greeley” and then furnished with a metal plate to “hang” the book for ready reference, the present was the personal copy of its editor, influential abolitionist and editor of the New York Tribune, Horace Greeley.
Very fine 1868 imprint of the previous 31 years of Greeley’s Almanac with a frontis of Greeley and a lithographed frontis of a letter in his hand on the role of the Almanac. Both volumes here complete in one chunky 8vo. Superb and important contents and presented here in Greeley’s own bespoke copy.
1860 contains an important article entitled, The Foreign Slave Trade, dismembering the status quo piece by piece and decidedly opposed to the Colonization Society’s plans to “throw them [former slaves] naked upon the coast of Africa, there to perish by hunger or violence,” and arguing for emancipation and education of slaves, etc,.
1861 includes the Declaration of Independence for South Carolina and an article on the plan of Charleston to secede should it become apparent Lincoln will be elected.
1863 includes the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty, etc.,
Anti-Slavery and abolitionist liberally sprinkled throughout the entirety of the volume.
Spine with damage, both boards essentially detached with an amateurish attempt at reattaching the front. Contents very stable. A superb object with important contents. We're happy to have our binder do restoration at actual cost.
