[Rarebooks] F/S 19th Century Scrapbook A Lincoln E Cady Stanton

[Garry R Austin]

For your consideration we offer the following net to all and postpaid @ $35

(Scrapbook) An 1860's to 1870's Scrapbook. Octavo half black leather and 
black cloth stamped in blind; Probably compiled in Massachusetts or 
Connecticut; pp; 145; the leaves are gathered in groups of different 
colors; the endpapers are blue and there is a handsome bookplate of a 
women in sillouette in full figure with arms extended & hands chained; 
on the rear paste-down is a plate from the same source of the devil in 
sillouette and a quote from Faust below; The name "N. G. Allen" appears 
on the front paste-down; The scrapbook is full; there is a positive 
moral theme overall, a piece in Negro dialect explaining the Telegraph 
utilizing the "N Word"; bits of poetry, Longfellow, Whittier & others, 
temperance topics, including a tipped in Temperance Tract & Elizabeth 
Cady Stanton on the Temperance Movement; there is also a printing of 
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Darwinism & Christianity; I suspect the 
compiler "Allen" was a woman but that is just a guess. A nice example of 
of the "Scrapbook" as compiled by a sensitive thoughtful 19th century 
American, a lovely relic.

Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington VT 05363
802 464-8438
mail at austinsbooks.com
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