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283. [TANNER, Henry] the martyrdom of lovejoy. An Account of the life, trials, and perils of rev. elijah p. lovejoy who was killed by a pro-slavery mob at Alton, ill, on the night of november 7 1837 by an eye Witness. Chicago. Fergus Printing Company. 1881.£248
8vo., original cloth with paper spine label. With 5 plates. spine label a little browned, otherwise a very good copy.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author “John A Wheeler esq with the compliments of the author” and with later inscription by John Wheeler presenting the book to a george halladay who also has inscribed the book.
the plates show a silhouette of lovejoy, a portrait of the author, an engraving of the mob attacking the building and two facsimiles of documents relating to the case.
elijah parish lovejoy (november 9, 1802 – november 7, 1837) was an American presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor and abolitionist. he was murdered by an opposition mob in Alton, illinois for his publication of abolitionist materials, as they attacked the warehouse where his press was operated.
lovejoy was considered a martyr by the abolition movement. in his name, his brother owen lovejoy became the leader of the illinois abolitionists. owen and his brother Joseph wrote a memoir about elijah lovejoy, which was published in 1838 by the Anti-slavery society in new york and distributed widely among abolitionists in the nation. With his murder symbolic of the rising tensions within the country, lovejoy is called the “first casualty of the civil War”.
284. TENNIEL, John. original wood block for a punch cartoon “A friend in need” Published in Punch, or the London Charivari, october 11, 1873.
£1,250
original woodblock 205 x 160 mm made up from 6 individual blocks bolted together, engraved by Joseph swaine.
entitled ‘A friend in need’, 1873 this cartoon for punch shows mr gladstone with John bright. in the background, an African man, dressed in skins and feathers is armed with a rifle. the caption to the cartoon ran:
Wm gladstone, “my dear John, i congratulate you! Just in time to settle accounts with our black friend yonder”.
John bright, “fighting is not quite in my line, as thee knoweth, friend William. nevertheless...”
gladstone had recently appointed John bright to the office of chancellor of the duchy of lancaster. here he is seen relishing bright’s reluctant support for the Ashanti campaign knowing that bright, as a Quaker, held strong pacifist principles, and had in the past been severly critical of british foreign policy.
the Ashanti campaign began as sir garnet Wolsely, the administrator on the gold coast, launched an expedition against kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti, as it was believed that they were threatening existing british settlements. kumasi fell early in 1874 and peace was agreed.
gladstone was a frequent target for tenniel’s cartoons and tenniel gave gladstone a particularly hard time during the debate over the 1867 reform Act. his portraiture of gladstone is often compared to his styling of the mad hatter in lewis carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, although the model for the mad hatter is generally thought to be theophilus carter,
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an eccentric furniture dealer in oxford, who styled himself along similar lines to gladstone as he was always careful to wear the high collar and black stock so often depicted in punch in cartoons of the ‘grand old man’.
285. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. ode on the death of the duke of Wellington. Edward Moxon. 1852-1853.
£850
8vo., 2 volumes, pp. 16 + 16, in contemporary full dark green morocco, boards with gilt panels and borders, lettered in gilt on spine, original front paper wrapper bound in. spine a little rubbed otherwise a very good copy.
first and second editions of this elegiac ode written by the poet laureate
for the public funeral of Wellington. the first edition was published on the actual day of the funeral, the second edition was published the year after.
there are textual differences between the first and second editions, with
lines appearing in both these editions which do not appear in later printings.
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