Author: LOWELL, James Russell
Title: [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
Description: London, Benjamin Franklin Stevens, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 .

Keywords: Signed, Presidents, Vellum Printing, Poetry, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, James Russell Lowell, Inscribed, Memorials, James Garfield Signed 19th Century American Literature Presidents Literature: American


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