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SMITH, Goldwin. The civil war in america: an address read at the last meeting of the manchester union and emancipation society.

London. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1866. First edition.
8vo. 96pp. Original publisher's red pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. A trifle rubbed, sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'With Thos. B. Potter's compliments'.
The first edition of journalist and historian Goldwin Smith's (1823-1910) impassioned address to the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society, commemorating the end of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the United States.

The speech is appended with a report of the final meeting of the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society, headed by president Thomas Bayley Potter (1817-1898), a close ally of Smith, who signed this copy.
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref: 25320