Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WALL, BERNHARDT. The Gettysburg Speech by Abraham Lincoln Delivered on Nov. 19, 1863. 24 etchings printed in colored inks on heavy wove paper, some of which are signed. 4to, bound by Wall in grey cloth spine over etched boards, set into the inside of front and rear cover are two original canceled copper plates one of bust portrait of lincoln with facsimile signature, the other of the colophon for the book; dust jacket with manuscript spine label. New York, 1924

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number one of only eleven canceled plate copies signed by wall with his explanation of this limitation handwritten on the colophon. The regular limited edition consisted of 100 copies.