![LINCOLN, Abraham, EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. National Proclamation of Emancipation. Whereas...on the 1st day of January, [1863] all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in Rebellion...shall be Henceforth and Forever Free... Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, [1863 or later].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01636_0105_000(120833).jpg?w=1)
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LINCOLN, Abraham, EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. National Proclamation of Emancipation. Whereas...on the 1st day of January, [1863] all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in Rebellion...shall be Henceforth and Forever Free... Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, [1863 or later].
Color lithographic broadside (15 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.), printed on thin parchment-like paper, neatly folding into a pocket-size leather binder (3 5/16 x 2½ in.) of red morocco, blind-tooled and gilt-lettered "PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION". The broadside neatly tipped to a protective backing. Fine condition.
An elaborate and colorful Chicago pre-fire imprint from one of city's foremost publishers of maps, guidebooks and globes, Rufus Blanchard (1821-1904). It features three-quarter borders of scrolling oak leaves and acorns, twining with large letters proclaiming "FREED" and "FOREVER"; the oak leaves neatly hand-colored in green; at the bottom are engraved vignettes (a country village scene, a harbor scene and an American eagle); the central portion with a field of pale blue with a ground of stars and a sunburst design at top. The text of Lincoln's proclamation is elaborately rendered in a variety of decorative typefaces.
Blanchard, a strong supporter of the Lincoln administration, explained in another broadside from his press that the Emancipation Proclamation "perfects the purposes of the Declaration of Independence," and "will be a powerful incentive to the slave to fight for the Union instead of his rebel master..."
Color lithographic broadside (15 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.), printed on thin parchment-like paper, neatly folding into a pocket-size leather binder (3 5/16 x 2½ in.) of red morocco, blind-tooled and gilt-lettered "PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION". The broadside neatly tipped to a protective backing. Fine condition.
An elaborate and colorful Chicago pre-fire imprint from one of city's foremost publishers of maps, guidebooks and globes, Rufus Blanchard (1821-1904). It features three-quarter borders of scrolling oak leaves and acorns, twining with large letters proclaiming "FREED" and "FOREVER"; the oak leaves neatly hand-colored in green; at the bottom are engraved vignettes (a country village scene, a harbor scene and an American eagle); the central portion with a field of pale blue with a ground of stars and a sunburst design at top. The text of Lincoln's proclamation is elaborately rendered in a variety of decorative typefaces.
Blanchard, a strong supporter of the Lincoln administration, explained in another broadside from his press that the Emancipation Proclamation "perfects the purposes of the Declaration of Independence," and "will be a powerful incentive to the slave to fight for the Union instead of his rebel master..."