Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, 1864. First Edition. First and only edition, extra-illustrated with approximately 65 inserted portraits. Full red pebbled morocco gilt dated 1882 on the spine, rebacked with the original spine laid down, the covers panelled in gilt, the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with the initials "W.H.W." at the foot. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 21 cm); with lithographed title and approximately 65 mostly engraved or lithographed portraits inserted (three are original drawings including one of Julia Ward Howe), xi (lithographed contents), 200 pp. (lithographed fascsimiles of the handwriting of the authors). Intermittent foxing, the inserted portraits have offset to the text leaves opposite, rebacked as noted and lightly rubbed.

This volume, produced at the time of the 1864 Baltimore Sanitary Fair, contains what is considered the first reproduction of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand. The facsimile was made from what is now known as the "Bliss Copy" of the address, the fifth and finalmanuscript copy of the address that Lincoln executed at the request of the editors of this volume. Other authors represented here include Emerson, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and many other notables of the period.

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Bookseller: Sanctuary Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: D16155
Title: Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors.
Author: [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM] BLISS, ALEXANDER and KENNEDY, JOHN P. (Editors).
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Cushings & Bailey
Place of Publication: Baltimore
Date Published: 1864

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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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