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[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION]. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. Whereas...[46 lines text]...Done at the City of Washington this first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three...Abraham Lincoln. By the President. [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, ca. 3 January 1863]. One page, folio (printed on page 1 of a four-page folded sheet), 332 x 211 mm. (13 1/16 x 8 5/16 in.), mat burn, dampstaining, two-inch tear into text, edges frayed. Charles Eberstadt, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, no. 10.
THE OFFICIAL STATE DEPARTMENT PRINTING OF THE FINAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
The first obtainable printing of the final emancipation proclamation, issued immediately after the proclamation became law on 1 January 1863, and preceded only by a newspaper "extra" printing and a small-format broadside, both of which survive in only a single copy. Charles Eberstadt's pioneering study describes and locates copies of most of the notable and early printings of the preliminary proclamation (Eberstadt nos.1-7) and the final, official proclamation (Eberstadt nos. 8-52). The present broadside is preceded by seven printings of the preliminary or draft proclamation of the text as announced by Lincoln on 22 September 1862 (the existence of one of which, Eberstadt's no. 7, is conjectural). The text of the final, official proclamation was the result of Lincoln's consultation with his cabinet on the morning of 31 December in which many changes were suggested. Lincoln then retired to consider all the cabinet members' recommendations and compose the final proclamation, which he completed late in the day. The text was rushed to the government printer. The present official State Department printing of the final proclamation is thus preceded only by the following:
1. Eberstadt 8. A small format (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.) two-page broadside, "printed in haste to serve the urgent need for a few copies until the resplendent, official folio edition [Eberstadt 10] could be prepared" (Eberstadt, p. 17).
Locations: Known in only a single copy, present whereabouts unknown.
2. Eberstadt 9: A broadside "extra" issued by the Illinois State
Journal, Springfield, Illinois, 2 January 1863.
Locations: Apparently unique, one copy recorded by Eberstadt at the Illinois State Historical Library in Springfield.
Of the present broadside, Eberstadt records 2 copies at the Library of Congress, 3 copies at the Huntington Library, San Marina, California, and one copy at Brown University Library, plus an additional copy owned by the Rosenbach Company (present whereabouts unknown). Another copy of the broadside was sold here 14 May 1992, lot 3).
THE OFFICIAL STATE DEPARTMENT PRINTING OF THE FINAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
The first obtainable printing of the final emancipation proclamation, issued immediately after the proclamation became law on 1 January 1863, and preceded only by a newspaper "extra" printing and a small-format broadside, both of which survive in only a single copy. Charles Eberstadt's pioneering study describes and locates copies of most of the notable and early printings of the preliminary proclamation (Eberstadt nos.1-7) and the final, official proclamation (Eberstadt nos. 8-52). The present broadside is preceded by seven printings of the preliminary or draft proclamation of the text as announced by Lincoln on 22 September 1862 (the existence of one of which, Eberstadt's no. 7, is conjectural). The text of the final, official proclamation was the result of Lincoln's consultation with his cabinet on the morning of 31 December in which many changes were suggested. Lincoln then retired to consider all the cabinet members' recommendations and compose the final proclamation, which he completed late in the day. The text was rushed to the government printer. The present official State Department printing of the final proclamation is thus preceded only by the following:
1. Eberstadt 8. A small format (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.) two-page broadside, "printed in haste to serve the urgent need for a few copies until the resplendent, official folio edition [Eberstadt 10] could be prepared" (Eberstadt, p. 17).
Locations: Known in only a single copy, present whereabouts unknown.
2. Eberstadt 9: A broadside "extra" issued by the Illinois State
Journal, Springfield, Illinois, 2 January 1863.
Locations: Apparently unique, one copy recorded by Eberstadt at the Illinois State Historical Library in Springfield.
Of the present broadside, Eberstadt records 2 copies at the Library of Congress, 3 copies at the Huntington Library, San Marina, California, and one copy at Brown University Library, plus an additional copy owned by the Rosenbach Company (present whereabouts unknown). Another copy of the broadside was sold here 14 May 1992, lot 3).