The Wide-Awake Gift: Know-Nothing Token - 1855
| Author: | Edited by "one of 'em" |
| Full Title: | The Wide- Awake Gift: A Know- Nothing Token for 1855 |
| Published | New York, Boston, and Cincinnati: Derby, Phillips, 1855 |
Attractive blue publisher's cloth, gilt pictorial front board and
gilt flag pictorial spine. Binding tight and sound.
Mostly clean internally w/ very scattered foxing. Steel-engraved frontis portrait of Webster, steel engraved half title, and three additional plates w/ tissue guards. In VG+ clean, condition. Measures 5 1/4" x 8." 312 pp.
The Know-Nothing movement (AKA "American Party") of the 1850's was a group of "native-born" Americans concerned over the influx of immigrants into the states. This popular response to Irish-Catholic immigration wished to maintain a nation of white Protestant regime.
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| Item #: | B2825 |
| Item Title: | The Wide-Awake Gift: Know-Nothing Token |
| Price ($US, shipping not incl.): | Sold |
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