(ABRAHAM LINCOLN) Now Ready for Subscribers Only Carpenter’s

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Now Ready, for Subscribers Only, Carpenter's Great National Picture. 4 printed pages, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet; horizontal folds, bottom edge trimmed, minor wear including short separations at folds. New York: Derby & Miller, 1866

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A pamphlet soliciting subscriptions for the extremely popular 1866 engraving of Francis B. Carpenter's painting "The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet," as engraved by Alexander Hay Ritchie. Includes endorsements from most of the cabinet members depicted, including Seward, Chase, Stanton, Welles and more, as well as reviews from several New York newspapers. The price is given as $50 for a signed artist's proof, $25 for an India proof, and $10 for a print, to be sent to the Derby & Miller Publishing Company of New York. No other examples traced in OCLC or at auction, although a different setting of this text appeared at the rear of Carpenter's 1867 book "The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln."