(1876).
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. Octavo. Unpaged and unprinted leaves. All edges gilt. Brick publisher's cloth stamped in blind and with "Autographs" in gilt on front board. Contemporary ownership signature of George H. Weston of Exeter, and with a later penciled signature from 1907, front hinge a little tender, and the spine ends a bit worn, very good.
An autograph album maintained by a Phillips Exeter Academy student between 1875-1876. Rather sparsely filled out, mostly by students of the Class of 1876 of the Academy, with two notable exceptions: the signatures of Mary A. Livermore, journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights, and that of Theodore Tilton, newspaper editor and abolitionist. Both signed within about a week of each other in November of 1876, possibly signed after they appeared or spoke at the school. Tilton's signature is smudged a bit but readable, Livermore's is bright and clear.
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