1888 P. T. BARNUM. Rare Signed, "Advance" Copy of his 1888 Autobiography. Jonathan Edwards Holl for William Mackenzie of

Holl for William Mackenzie of Glasgow

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wantonness & fornication & covetousness & immoderate love of the world

*Clipped and inserted inscription

1888 P. T. BARNUM. Rare Signed, "Advance" Copy of his 1888 Autobiography. Jonathan Edwards Holl for William Mackenzie ofPresentation edition of the first edition of P. T. Barnum's [1810 1891] 78 year autobiography. Likely what we would today call an "advance" copy, distributed to the Press for the purpose of review, etc., This example, nicely preserved, includes a dictated letter, which is hand signed, explaining the origins of the volume. Interestingly, the lack of direct recipient implies he did multiples of this letter for various papers, etc., and perhaps that this