Shelfmark
Id3.3.08
Main entry--corporate name
Title
The liberty bell. / by Friends of Freedom.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Boston : National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, MDCCCLVI [1856]
Physical description
viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Note
Additional engraved title-page.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Publisher's blue ribbed cloth with bell motif (blind on back, gold on front) inside blind stamped frames on boards, lettering and decoration stamped in gold on spine.
Formatted contents note
Contents: A curse for the nation, Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- State Rights of Massachusetts, Harriet Martineau -- The ruined temples, William Henry Hurlbut -- The historic point of view. Letters -- Lines, E. S. Pollen -- Jan and Zaida, L. Maria Child -- The ballad of Edward Davis, James Freeman Clarke -- Letter, N. Tourgueneff -- Lay of the mountaineer, Harriet Winslow List -- Nemesis, Edmund Quincy -- Hymn, Samuel Longfellow, The consequences of royal piety, Charles Francis Adams -- A psalm of life, A Boston Doctor of Divinity -- The 'infidelity' of abolitionism, William Lloyd Garrison -- Lines, L. M. Child -- Testimony against slavery, Edward Baines -- A charade -- Necrology, Maria Weston Chapman -- Elisabeth of the Wartburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Letter of an Evangelical Pastor, Adolphe Mondo -- Extract from a speech on the Boston Mob anniversary, Wendelol Phillips -- Sonnets, Anne Warren Weston.
Provenance
From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Provenance
Bookplate of Thomas Hutchinson, Morpeth.
Copy-specific note
Portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning pasted onto p. viii.
Copy-specific note
Ms. note on front endpaper: "A notable volume for the poem, "A Curse for the Nation," by Mrs. Browning."
Subject
Slavery & anti-slavery.
Subject
United States History 19th century.
Genre/Form
Poems.
Added entry--name
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806 - 1861 contributor.
Added entry--name
Hutchinson, Thomas former owner.
Added entry--name
National Anti-slavery Bazaar publisher.
Added entry--place
United States Massachusetts Boston.
Identifier
B30848