Author: MILLER, Francis Trevelyan
Title: Portrait Life of Lincoln
Description: Springfield, MA, The Patriot Publishing Company, 1910. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial plate to front board. 164pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Gilt a tad rubbed. A tight, quite nice, internally near fine first edition of this (to cite subtitle) "Life of Abraham Lincoln, the Greatest American, told from Original Photographs taken with His Authority during the Great Crisis through which He Led His Country -- Treasured among the 7000 Secret Service War Negatives in the Brady-Gardner Collection at Springfield, Massachusetts, and in Private Collections, valued at $150,000 Collected by Edward Bailey Eaton." Best of all, this copy hails from the library of Cleveland attorney and noted Lincoln collector and Lincoln Memorial University trustee CARL W. SCHAEFER, and bears his custom Bernhardt Wall designed Lincoln-theme bookplate on the front pastedown. MONAGHAN 1936. .

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln


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