Description
Third edition of the Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, published by Bela Marsh in 1855.
Octavo, [2], 122pp, [6]. Original full brown cloth, title in gilt on front cover. Solid text block, worn corners, toning and faint stains to front endpapers. Previous ownership bookplates to front endpapers, including the Union Library Co. Features a frontispiece portrait of Daniel Drayton with a protective tissue guard. A very good example.
(Dumond, 48) (Sabin 20912) (Blockson, 9838)
The first edition of Daniel Drayton’s personal memoir was published in 1853 and printed with brown paper wrappers.
Daniel Drayton (1802-1857) was an American sea captain and abolitionist known for his role in the Pearl Incident of 1848, one of the largest recorded attempted escapes of enslaved people in U.S. history. Drayton, along with Captain Edward Sayres, attempted to transport 77 enslaved individuals from Washington, D.C., to freedom in the North aboard the schooner Pearl. The escape was thwarted, and Drayton was arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for aiding a slave escape. After receiving a pardon from President Millard Fillmore in 1852, he continued to speak and write about his abolitionist beliefs.
From the collection of Charles Fleishmann III, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Fleishmann III was a lifelong traveler, collector, and philanthropist who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Hindman Auctions, November 2023)
