[Rarebooks] OFFER: POLITICAL CIVIL WAR EMBLEM BOOK.

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[LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY]: YE BOOKS OF COPPERHEADS. Philadelphia : 
Frederick Leypoldt, 1863. 24, [6],  ill. ; 13 x 23 cm. Illustrated t. p. 
with ornamental border. Published anonymously. A collection of cartoons and 
satirical verses. Republished, Indianapolis, 1864, as a campaign document 
in the presidential campaign. By C. G. Leland and H. P. Leland. Cf. 
Elizabeth R. Pennell, Charles Godfrey Leland (1906, v. 1, p. 254). Tan 
printed paper covers. All of us have probably read many times that John 
Warner Barber was the only American artist who produced an original emblem 
book. He produced several of them, all of them before 1840. As such he was 
active at his moral craft much later than any European contemporary. 
However this scarce booklet, written by the American literateur and student 
of early history and society who was at one time the president of the Gypsy 
Lore Society is that rare bird, an original American  emblem book and it is 
also is also an intensely political book. The emblems are all political, 
pro Union and anti Confederate and their northern friends.  It is quite a 
rare book, even in its 1864 reprint. No copies are located at OCLC except 
for 20th century reprints. The drawing is meticulous, intense and with an 
antiquarian smack of the old and dead-part of the crack he is taking at the 
old fashioned pro-slavery Copperheads. Original copies are located at the 
AAS[MWA], HLS [Harvard], YUS[Yale], Etc. This copy is a fine to mint one in 
the original covers. Only a penned inscription, now the same color as the 
ink on the front wrap to Frank Bartlett from McAllister mark it as a period 
copy and not a fraud. $875.00

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