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- 1866-1868 (mostly 1866-1867) (Creation)
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ii, 89 ff. (text mostly on rectos; blank from f. 49 verso) ; 185 x 120 mm.
Leather over boards; gold tooling on spine and blind fillets and tooling on covers; 'Autographs' (in gold on front cover and blind on back cover); gilt page edges; 'Mr John Griffith, [Th]e "Baner ac Amserau Cymru" Newspa[per]' (business card pasted inside front cover); 'John Griffith, The "Baner Cymru" - London - England' (pencil on f. i).
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Archival history
Previously sold at Mellors & Kirk Auctions, Nottingham, 16 September 2020 (lot 730).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Dr Christian White, Modern First Editions; Ilkley; Purchase; March 2021; 991101043302419.
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Autograph album, 1866-1868, belonging to the journalist John Griffith (Gohebydd), compiled during visits to Reconstruction Era America to report for Baner ac Amserau Cymru. The album contains eighty-four signatures and inscriptions, mainly by Senators and other senior politicians and social reformers (ff. 3-49).
The signatories include the future Presidents James A. Garfield (f. 32) and U[lysses] S. Grant (f. 37), future Vice-Presidents Tho[mas] A. Hendricks (f. 7) and Schuyler Colfax (f. 26), Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton (f. 36), presidents pro-tem of the Senate L[a] F[ayette] S. Foster (f. 19) and B[enjamin] F. Wade (f. 22), the abolitionists and social reformers Frederick Douglass (f. 38), Wendell Phillips (f. 45) and Anna E. Dickinson (f. 46), the actor James E. Murdoch (f. 41) and the writer R[alph] Waldo Emerson (f. 43). A few autographs are of Welshmen (ff. 44, 49).
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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- English
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English.
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Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5797405 (February 2022)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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January 2022.
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Description compiled by Rhys Jones.