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[ABRAHAM LINCOLN.] Edward Everett. An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg. Plan of the cemetery on page [32]. 48 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, moderate wear and foxing, lacking rear wrapper; minor wear and foxing to contents. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1863
Most of this slim volume is dedicated to Edward Everett's speech at Gettysburg, and it concludes with the reports on the day's ceremonies from three New York newspapers. In between, on pages 40 and 41, is President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address--yet to be recognized as one of the greatest examples of American oratory.
The pamphlet was issued on 25 November 1863, just six days after the address was delivered. The publishers advertised it in that day's New York Tribune as "ready this morning," adding that it was "perhaps the most interesting contribution yet made to the History of the War, and should be in the possession of every citizen." The other early pamphlet printing of the address, The Gettysburg Solemnities, was also first advertised as issued on 25 November, making priority difficult to establish. The present volume was definitely one of the two first pamphlet printings of the Gettysburg Address--and perhaps the first. Carbonell, Gettysburg Address 3a; Monaghan 193; Printing and the Mind of Man 351; Sabin 23263; Streeter sale III:1747.
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