Bacon's guide to American politics
Subtitle: [promotional circular for the] 3rd edition of 5000, with valuable additions and political map, 100 pages : wrapper, 1 s[hilling] ; cloth, large map, 2 s[hillings]
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Bacon & Co.
Published: 1865
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Constitutional history; History; United States; Confederate States of America
Other titles: Guide to American politics; Bacon's Shilling series of American war maps.
Notes: Title and part of the subtitle from caption; publisher from foot of p. [1]; probable date of imprint from ms. notation on p. [1].

"Containing the Federal and Confederate Constitutions and points of difference between them, origin of ditto, ratification of ditto, Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, theory of government, separate powers of the national and state governments, admission of new states and government of the territories, secession ordinance of South Carolina, Alabama, Virginia and Texas, President Buchanan's message on the crisis, extracts from the Republican platform, comparative resources of North and South, abstract of the last census, manner of electing the president, the political platforms of 1864, etc."

Verso is similar publisher's advertising for Bacon's Shilling series of American war maps.

Reproduction of the original from John Rylands University Library. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.