[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1868 Broadside Printing of the THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT Abolishing Slavery

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog of 85 new arrivals:

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[AFRICAN-AMERICANA] LINCOLN, Abraham. THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT. JOINT 
RESOLUTION OF THE THIRTY EIGHTH CONGRESS ... PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO 
THE CONSTITUTION ... ABOLISHING SLAVERY. RESOLVED. Chicago: Western Bank 
Note & Engraving Co., 1868. First Edition. Large folio (16-1/4" x 
21-3/4") matted and framed to an overall size of 21-1/2" x 27." Finely 
engraved and printed on good quality paper with elaborate decorative 
borders with a "US" monogram to upper corners, a bold calligraphic 
heading with "ABOLISHING SLAVERY" in prominent decorated letters; at top 
center is a small vignette of the pyramid and all-seeing eye above an 
oval vignette of a slave family with child mourning over a cameo 
portrait of Lincoln. This is followed by the engraved signatures of 
President Lincoln, Vice President Hamlin, Schuyler Colfax and J. W. 
Forney (Speaker and Secretary of the Senate), and 164 Senators and 
Congressmen. An exceedingly rare and beautiful printing of the 
Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery: "Neither slavery nor 
involuntary servitude ... Shall exist within the United States...." This 
elaborately engraved Reconstruction-era broadside, is based on the 
special "souvenir" copies on parchment signed by Lincoln and the others, 
of which only a handful are known to have been made. The Thirteenth 
Amendment represents the first substantive change to how America 
interpreted those liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights since its 
ratification in 1791. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the 
slaves in the openly rebellious states. The Amendment effectively put an 
end to slavery once and for all upon its passage on 1 February 1865. Two 
chips on the right margin affecting decorative border; two long closed 
tears at the top with no loss; two holes at the center, the largest 
causing loss of a few letters of the signatures; a few minor creases and 
tears. Overall Very Good with a fine presentation, not examined out of 
the frame. (#019219)     $12,500.00

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