[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Works Charles Sumner leather

[Clare Murphy]

SUMNER, CHARLES.  WORKS OF CHARLES SUMNER. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 
1870. Illustrated by frontis portrait of Sumner. Subscriber's 
edition. Complete in 15 volumes. 3/4 brown leather with marbled paper 
covered boards, raised bands, leather title labels, all edges 
marbled. Signed by Charles Sumner. 8vo. Very good. With the 
bookplates of Henry Woods, Boston and Paris, France, one of the 
listed subscribers. Woods was a partner in C. F. Hovey Co., an 
important early Boston department store with offices in NY and Paris. 
Volume XV has a very weak front hinge, the other volumes are strong. 
Many volumes have a bit of shelfwear to spine extremities and 
scuffing to spines. Two of the leather labels have noticable chips to 
them. All contents are clean and free from foxing.

Charles Sumner was born in 1811. American statesman and jurist. 
Delivered a powerful speech against war in 1845, "The True Grandeur 
of Nations," and in 1851 was elected United States senator. In 1856 
he made a speech, "The Crime Against Kansas," which caused a personal 
attack upon him by a Southern delegate. In 1860 he made his oration, 
"The Barbarism of Slavery," was chairman of Committee on Foreign 
Relations, 1861-71. Sumner was a strong supporter of the American 
claims in the "Alabama" case. Died 1874.  $2500.00

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