Description
The first edition of Assassination Of Lincoln: A History of the Great Conspiracy by Thomas Mealey Harris.
Octavo, 424pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, illustration stamped in black on front cover. Floral endpapers. Includes several illustrated plates, some photographs. Light rubbing to cloth spine, some loss of gilt. Ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Internally clean. Solid text block. (Monaghan 1103)
This work provides a legal basis for believing that Jefferson Davis was guilty of conspiring with Booth to assassinate Lincoln. It was followed by “Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln” by Harris in 1897. (Monaghan 1214)
