Lot 63
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. KEMBLE, Frances Anne (1809-1893).
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. KEMBLE, Frances Anne (1809-1893).
The Views of Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South, Illustrated from the Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. [Philadelphia?]: Privately printed, [1863?].
8vo. Woodcut illustrations on front wrapper and title page. (Soft vertical crease.) Publisher's original illustrated yellow wrappers (light soiling, pencil notations).
FIRST EDITION of the abolitionist response to the pro-slavery speeches by Judge George W. Woodward (1809-1875) and Episcopalian Bishop John Henry Hopkins (1792-1868). The cover and title page are illustrated by a woodcut after the famous photograph taken by McPherson and Oliver in Baton Rouge, LA of a "Badly-whipped slave" showing the back and profile of a young enslaved African American man with a heavily scarred back from the brutality of being bull-whipped. Sabin lists the city of publication as Philadelphia in 1863, others list 1864, and others attest that it was a publication by Harper & Brother's in New York, suggested by the publisher's advertisement for Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation on the rear wrapper. Blockson 10196, Sabin 37330.
8vo. Woodcut illustrations on front wrapper and title page. (Soft vertical crease.) Publisher's original illustrated yellow wrappers (light soiling, pencil notations).
FIRST EDITION of the abolitionist response to the pro-slavery speeches by Judge George W. Woodward (1809-1875) and Episcopalian Bishop John Henry Hopkins (1792-1868). The cover and title page are illustrated by a woodcut after the famous photograph taken by McPherson and Oliver in Baton Rouge, LA of a "Badly-whipped slave" showing the back and profile of a young enslaved African American man with a heavily scarred back from the brutality of being bull-whipped. Sabin lists the city of publication as Philadelphia in 1863, others list 1864, and others attest that it was a publication by Harper & Brother's in New York, suggested by the publisher's advertisement for Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation on the rear wrapper. Blockson 10196, Sabin 37330.
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