(CIVIL WAR) Bliss Alexander; and John Pendleton Kennedy edit

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(CIVIL WAR.) Bliss, Alexander; and John Pendleton Kennedy, editors. Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors. xi, 200, [1] lithographed pages. 4to, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, minor wear; front joint starting, minimal dampstaining to inner lower corner. Baltimore, 1864

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The book was published to raise funds for the troops via the Baltimore Sanitary Fair. It consists of lithographic reproductions of dozens of important manuscripts by American authors, starting with Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner. Lincoln wrote out a fresh copy of his Gettysburg Address; this was the first appearance of the address in manuscript facsimile. Most of the great American authors of the mid-19th century were also represented--Hawthorne, Irving, Whittier, Longfellow, Stowe, Emerson, Audubon, Poe, Melville, Cooper, Thoreau, and many more.