Id3.3.08
The liberty bell. / by Friends of Freedom.
Boston : National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, MDCCCLVI [1856]
viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Additional engraved title-page.
With a half-title.
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.
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.
From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Bookplate of Thomas Hutchinson, Morpeth.
Portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning pasted onto p. viii.
Ms. note on front endpaper: "A notable volume for the poem, "A Curse for the Nation," by Mrs. Browning."
Slavery & anti-slavery.
United States History 19th century.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806 - 1861 contributor.
Hutchinson, Thomas former owner.
National Anti-slavery Bazaar publisher.
United States Massachusetts Boston.
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