Description
First edition, later issue of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, published in 1860.
Octavo, 4pp, [iv], [1]-268pp. Publisher’s original brown cloth, stamped in blind on covers, title stamped in gilt on spine. Lacking front free endpaper. Solid text block, light foxing to endpapers and occasional toning to text. Period newspaper affixed to front endpaper. Rubbing to head of spine, soiling to cloth. This later issue, from the summer of 1860, contains an advertisement for The Poets and Poetry of the West by Wm. T. Coggeshall, a “line” over the printers card on copyright page, and lacks the “2” on page 17. Free of marginalia. (Howes L338) (Monaghan 69) (Sabin 41156) Known as one of the Post-Nomination issues, from August of 1860.
