The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial [Signed]

Item Details

Northampton, The Gehenna Press, 1969, Leather

Limited, Fine

 8-1/4" x 5-3/4", 38 leaves, untrimmed. Signed limited edition. Original quarter bound leather over marbled paper boards, gilt title on spine, pages watermarked with deckle edges. This # 71/100 with additional engraved impression of Sewell by Baskin as issued on Japanese paper laid in loose, signed and numbered by Baskin in pencil; additionally numbered in pencil on colophon.   The Selling of Joseph is the title of a pamphlet written by Samuel Sewall,  published in 1700, which is considered the first anti-slavery tract published in New England.

From the estate of the artist's sister, Pearl Baskin Rabinowitz.  (30562) $700.00