LINCOLN ABRAHAM Complete Works New and Enlarged Edition

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Complete Works . . . New and Enlarged Edition. Edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay. 12 portrait frontispieces; 32 photographic plates; 12 facsimiles of letters and documents. 12 volumes. 8vo, publisher's scarlet morocco gilt with intricate Renaissance-style design of interlacing strapwork and floral tendrils on front covers and similar decoration on slightly darkened flat spines; contents toned along edges, clean tear across one text leaf. Number 283 of the "Sponsor's Edition," this copy "especially prepared for Sylvanus B. Bechtel." ([Harrogate, Tenn.]: Lincoln Memorial University, 1894)

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Tipped in facing the Volume 1 frontispiece is a facsimile on onion skin of a 1904 TLS from Hay to Judd Stewart, Esq., identifying the 2 figures shown with Lincoln in the frontispiece as Hay himself and John Nicolay.