[Rarebooks] FS: J. R. Lowell on the DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD, one of only 6 printed on vellum, the Wakeman copy

[Charles Agvent]

LOWELL, James Russell. [IN MEMORIAM JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD] DEATH OF 
PRESIDENT GARFIELD. Meeting of Americans in London at Exeter Hall 24 
September 1881 To which is added by permission The Address of His Grace 
the Archbishop of Canterbury Delivered at the Church of St. 
Martin's-in-the-Fields 26 September 1881. London: Benjamin Franklin 
Stevens, 1881. First Edition. Quarto (68" x 11") in full gilt black 
morocco leather by Bedford; original albumen photograph of Garfield as 
frontispiece; 60 pages printed entirely on vellum. Includes the memorial 
address by Lowell, who at the time was minister to the Court of St. 
James’s. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Lowell on the front pastedown: "To/G. 
W. Smalley,/with sincere regard of/J. R. Lowell/one of six copies struck 
off on vellum." This is the Stephen Wakeman copy with his simple 
bookplate on the rear pastedown. When sold at the auction of Wakeman's 
books in 1924, this copy also had a letter by Lowell which is not 
present here. Light rubbing to covers. Near Fine and exceptionally 
scarce. (#020934)        $6,500

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