[Rarebooks] fs: 1850 speech by Gettysburg headliner, Everett

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 8908 )  Everett, Edward (1794-1865). AN ORATION DELIVERED AT 
CHARLESTOWN, ON THE SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, 
JUNE 17, 1850.
Boston: Redding and Company, 1850. Original wrappers, Octavo, 79 pages. 
Good.
      Edward Everett is of course best known as the marquee speaker whose 
2-hour oration at Gettysburg has been utterly eclipsed by Lincoln's "few 
appropriate remarks." Anyone who has read his Gettysburg account knows it 
deserves a better fate. This earlier commemoration of Bunker Hill is a 
similarly well researched narrative, delivered in typically grandiose 19th 
century style. One must remember that this was the height of entertainment 
in that era. Also included here is an account of the how the 75th 
anniversary was arranged and how it came off. The full cover title of the 
booklet is: "Battle of Bunker Hill. Oration by Edward Everett, with a Brief 
Account of the Celebration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Battle of 
Bunker Hill, at Charlestown, June 17, 1850," with the account of the 
celebration occupying pages 51-79. Mild dampstaining scattered throughout, 
covers have some splits along joints repaired with archival tissue. Front 
cover has a handwritten title label along top of spine, some cover soil. 
$50.00
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