NEWLY DISCOVERED JANUARY 2 PRINTING OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Boston Daily Courier. Emancipation Proclamation. Boston, 2 January 1863. 4pp., large folio (654 x 495 mm), spotting. FIRST PRINTED NEWSPAPER NOTICE OF THE SIGNING which freed all slaves held in the states and territories still occupied by the Confederacy. This is one of the earliest known printings of the Proclamation, as most were published a day later on January 3; the only earlier known printing is the very common General Order, which is printed onto smaller format paper. The Proclamation, highlighted on the front page, states, in part: “That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;…(it is signed in print by Lincoln)”. Not in Eberstadt. This is dated one day earlier than the copy of the State Department printing sold by Christie’s for over $60,000.