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English: Folio broadside printed on paper (495 x 392 mm). Text in two columns, numerous arithmetical calculations and pen trials on verso; minor marginal loss at left, other areas of loss primarily along creases costing a few letters, some soiling and scuff marks, predominantly at to top right, tissue repairs to folds.

Goodspeed’s-Sang-Streeter copy of Robert Luist Fowle’s Exeter broadside

PROVENANCE Goodspeed's, 1964

Thomas W. Streeter (his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 19 April 1967), lot 784

Phillip Sang (his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 26 April 1978, lot 83, miscatalogued as Walsh 14)

Christie's, New York, 22 April 2021, lot 6

REFERENCES

Sotheby's checklist 12; Walsh 15; Bristol 4408; Streeter sale 2:184; cf. Goff, "A Contemporary Broadside Printing of the Declaration of Independence," in Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 5 (1947): 12-16
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Author Robert Luist Fowle

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