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Adams, John

BY A VOTE OF CONGRESS

Kirkwood: The Printery, 1976: 1976
  • $115
7 x 10. 37 pages, large folding facsimile of Adams' letter is tipped in. Quarter red leather & marbled boards. Fine with prospectus. One of 145 copies. The book is handset in Stephenson-Blake's Caslon types that were cast from matrices made from the original punches cut by William Caslon in the early eighteenth century. A sprinkling of period printer's ornaments adds spice to the mix. Printed in two colors throughout, the book is illustrated with a frontispiece of John Adams from a period engraving based on a painting by John Singleton Copley. Also included are reproductions of an original two pence newspaper stamp tax, Franklin's now famous "Join or Die" political cartoon, and the four coffins device that identifies the victims of the Boston Massacre.
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