$54,900
New York: Francis D. Tandy, n.d. 24 vols. [uniformly bound with:] By Francis Fisher Browne. Chicago: Browne & Howell Company, 1913. 2 vols. 26 vols. 8vo, bound in full levant gilt-ruled morocco by Monastery Hill Bindery, t.e.g. The Gettysburg Edition, limited to 700 sets, the present set is extended to 26 vols. with the inclusion of the Large Paper edition of and contains 142 autographed letters, signature and documents, and 465 extra illustrations. It is made even more attractive by the addition of folio-sized collection of engravings of Lincoln's cabinet and generals and signers of the Declaration of Independence, 4to, bound in full red levant morocco, silk endpapers. A matching leather-bound volume contains an alphabetical index identifying the autographs and their locations within the set [the autographs are typically bound in the final volume - the present set has them bound within the text at appropriate junctures]. Each is transcribed. A listing and location of the extra-illustrations, portraits, battle scenes, and facsimile documents is presented in a separate cloth volume. The collection contains autograph signatures of Lincoln, ten Presidents, and Jefferson Davis, as well as a broad assemblage of autographs including Robert E. Lee, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Hooker, Scott, Hood, Meade, Beauregard, Hamlin and Seward to name a few. A fine letter from Fessenden to Webster should be noted, as well as a letter from West Point Cadet, James Fry, pertaining to the readiness Read more…
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2012-08-08
