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“I can’t think of a more essential book as we prepare to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. With erudition, literary panache, and a wealth of striking images, John Bidwell has breathed new life into an old and still precious document. Highly recommended.” —Ted Widmer,author of Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

“I can’t think of a more essential book as we prepare to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. With erudition, literary panache, and a wealth of striking images, John Bidwell has breathed new life into an old and still precious document. Highly recommended.” —Ted Widmer,author of Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington “Nineteenth-century Americans encountered the Declaration of Independence as a work of art in myriad facsimile engravings and lithographs. Through painstaking historical and bibliographical research, John Bidwell expertly traces the creation and evolution of these iconic images. Thanks to Bidwell, anyone interested in how the Declaration became an iconic document will now have to reckon with its visual image, not just its words.” —Scott E. Casper,President, American Antiquarian Society

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John Bidwell is Curator Emeritus at the Morgan Library & Museum. He is the author of Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts, also published by Penn State University Press.

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