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LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. Whereas...[46 lines text]...By the President. [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, ca. 3 January 1863].
2o (332 x 211 mm), printed on page 1 of a bifolium. (Faint browning.) Quarter blue morocco folding case. A FINE COPY.
THE OFFICIAL AND FIRST OBTAINABLE BROADSIDE PRINTING OF LINCOLN'S FINAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Lincoln confided to a friend that he saw the Emancipation Proclamation as "the central act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century." This broadside--embodying that momentous text--was issued immediately after the proclamation became law on 1 January 1863, and is preceded only by a newspaper "extra" and an interim small-format printing, both of which survive in only one copy (see below). The present broadside is preceded by seven printings of the draft proclamation as announced on 22 September 1862 (the existence of one, Eberstadt no. 7, is conjectural). The text of the final, official proclamation was the result of discussion with the cabinet on the morning of 31 December. After many suggestions were offered and discussed, Lincoln retired to compose the final proclamation, completed late that day. The final text was rushed to the government printer and this official State Department printing of the final proclamation is thus preceded only by the following:
1. Eberstadt 8. A small-format issue, "printed in haste to serve the urgent need for a few copies until the resplendent, official folio edition [this one] could be prepared" (Eberstadt, p. 17). Known in only a single copy.
2. Eberstadt 9: A broadside "extra" issued by the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, 2 January 1863. Known in only one copy, at the Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield. Eberstadt, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, no. 10.
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THE OFFICIAL AND FIRST OBTAINABLE BROADSIDE PRINTING OF LINCOLN'S FINAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Lincoln confided to a friend that he saw the Emancipation Proclamation as "the central act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century." This broadside--embodying that momentous text--was issued immediately after the proclamation became law on 1 January 1863, and is preceded only by a newspaper "extra" and an interim small-format printing, both of which survive in only one copy (see below). The present broadside is preceded by seven printings of the draft proclamation as announced on 22 September 1862 (the existence of one, Eberstadt no. 7, is conjectural). The text of the final, official proclamation was the result of discussion with the cabinet on the morning of 31 December. After many suggestions were offered and discussed, Lincoln retired to compose the final proclamation, completed late that day. The final text was rushed to the government printer and this official State Department printing of the final proclamation is thus preceded only by the following:
1. Eberstadt 8. A small-format issue, "printed in haste to serve the urgent need for a few copies until the resplendent, official folio edition [this one] could be prepared" (Eberstadt, p. 17). Known in only a single copy.
2. Eberstadt 9: A broadside "extra" issued by the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, 2 January 1863. Known in only one copy, at the Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield. Eberstadt, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, no. 10.