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  Rare and remarkable 19th-Century Autograph Album containing the autographs of 289 politicians; among them seven presidents including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and William McKinley

  [CLEVELAND, Grover; James A. Garfield; Ulysses S. Grant; Benjamin Harrison; Rutherford B. Hayes; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt].

  19th-Century Presidents, Vice Presidents and other Dignitaries Signed Autograph Album.

  Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, [1872].

  Rare and remarkable autograph book compiled by West Virginia senator and industrialist Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) containing 289 historic autographs, including seven presidents, seven vice presidents, and scores of members of the Senate, House of Representatives, and presidential cabinets, as well as a few other 19th-century notables. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-scrolled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, all edges gilt, title page printed in gilt. With Davis' ownership signature and subsequently that of his daughter to the title page, "H. G . Davis, 1872" and "Grace T. Davis, 1887" (Miss Davis was 18 in 1887). The book has approximately 300 unnumbered pages but only the first 144 (which were numbered in pencil by hand at some point) include the autographs, generally three on each side of a page, most often including the person's home state, or, in the case of cabinet members, their office title. The highlights of the album are the signatures of seven presidents, representing a half-century of American politics: U. S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland,...

  Price: $22,500.00     Item Number: 149519

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