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PRIEST, JOHN T., compiler. Memorial to Crispus Attucks, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, and Patrick Car r, From the City of Boston. Frontispiece and 2 additional photogravure illustrations. Small 4to, orig-inal cloth with gilt City of

PRIEST, JOHN T., compiler. Memorial to Crispus Attucks, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, and Patrick Car r, From the City of Boston. Frontispiece and 2 additional photogravure illustrations. Small 4to, orig-inal cloth with gilt City of Boston emblem on front cover; title and date of dedication on spine; lightly rubbed. Ownership signature of "Richard Sullivan, Boston Mass. (ward 22)," likely a politician. Boston: printed by Order of the City Council, 1889 E300/400 FIRST EDITION. Among letters to the committee are one from Frederick Douglass and another from John Mercer Langston. Committee members included John Quincy Adams [2d], A. H. Grimke, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Early owner noted at which speeches he was present and his proximity to the speakers.

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