William Lloyd Garrison Autograph Sonnet Signed.

Autograph sonnet signed by William Lloyd Garrison in an album with manuscript poems, signatures, topographical photographs, and cuttings compiled by Frances Louisa Everard, originally of Spalding in Lincolnshire. Quarto, original beveled boards elaborately stamped and paneled in blind with gilt titles to the front and rear panel 'Album Orne,' elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panel, gilt tooled inner dentelles, pictorial endpapers, tissue-guarded pictorial title page, illustrated with photographs, news clippings, and other ephemera. Signed by William Lloyd Garrison and inscribed in full with his sonnet, 'True Courage,' which he composed on sailing to America in 1833, "I boast no courage on the battle-field, Where hostile troops immix in horrid fray; For love or fame I can no weapon wield, With burning lust an enemy to slay:— But test my spirit at the blazing stake, For advocacy of the rights of man, And truth—or on the wheel my body break; Let persecution place me 'neath its ban; Insult, defame, proscribe my humble name; Yea, put the dagger at my naked breast; If I recoil in terror from the flame, Or recreant prove when peril rears its crest, To save a limb, or shun the public scorn—Then write me down for aye, Weakest of woman born." In good condition with rubbing to the spine, front and rear panel and some cuttings or items removed from the album.