Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018

121 c   (PRINTS—EMANCIPATION.) Hageboeck, lithographer; after W.H. Pratt. Proclamation of Emancipation—Abraham Lincoln. Engraving, 14 x 11 inches; moderate toning and foxing, short tape repair on verso. [Davenport, IA], 1865 [1,000/1,500] The first state of this curious Emancipation Proclamation, in which the words are calligraphically arranged to form a portrait of Lincoln. Several other editions appeared with an illustrated border. Eberstadt 40.