Declaration of Independence [LEC] Photograph by Robert Frank. Afterword by David Armitage.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 2010. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; FRANK, Robert|LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. FRANK, Robert. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Declaration of Independence [LEC]. Photograph by Robert Frank. Afterword by David Armitage. New York: Limited Editions Club, 2010.

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[DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. The Declaration of Independence [LEC]. Photograph by Robert Frank. Afterword by David Armitage. New York: Limited Editions Club, [2010].

Limited to 500 copies, signed by the photographer Robert Frank and David Armitage on limitation page. This being number 40. Quarto (14 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches; 358 x (truncated) 267 mm). With a frontispiece photogravure by Robert Frank. Printed letterpress on thick handmade paper.

Bound in publisher's dark blue fabric. Blue morocco label on front board, lettered in gilt. Bottom edge uncut. Housed in a dark blue fabric velvet-lined clamshell. Clamshell with blue morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. A fine copy.

"...The Declaration of Independence, one of the bravest documents in human history. No plea for reform, it demanded a divorce for the “Free and Independent States.” Creating a brand new nation, the delegates, all white and all men, put everything at risk. Men of property, well educated and powerful, they knew full well that by signing it, they stood to lose everything, their property, their families, their very lives if the Declaration and their mission failed. Hauntingly, Dr. Armitage includes a section that the delegates deleted. Here Jefferson speaks of the horrors of slavery, charging that the George III '. . . waged cruel war against human nature itself . . . Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold . . . '" (From the publisher) LEC Bibliography.

HBS 69353.

$2,500. (Inventory #: 69353)