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Auction archive: Lot number 14

Almamac with Cromwell woodcut within days of the Tea Party

Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 14

Almamac with Cromwell woodcut within days of the Tea Party

Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

24] pp. Woodcut portrait of Oliver Cromwell on title page. (12mo) 17.3x10.7 cm (7x4¼”), bound with string Woodcut captioned: "Ungrateful Those, who would no tears allow / To him, who gave them Peace and Empire Too!" Cromwell's famous speech dissolving Parliament is quoted extensively on the following page. This almanac would have been printed within ten days, at most, of the Boston Tea Party, and the pointed anti-King, anti-Parliament message would have rung loud and clear.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
23 Aug 2018
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

24] pp. Woodcut portrait of Oliver Cromwell on title page. (12mo) 17.3x10.7 cm (7x4¼”), bound with string Woodcut captioned: "Ungrateful Those, who would no tears allow / To him, who gave them Peace and Empire Too!" Cromwell's famous speech dissolving Parliament is quoted extensively on the following page. This almanac would have been printed within ten days, at most, of the Boston Tea Party, and the pointed anti-King, anti-Parliament message would have rung loud and clear.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
23 Aug 2018
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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