Description
First edition of Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, by Allen Thorndike Rice, with contributions from Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and more.
Thick octavo, lxix, [1], 13pp documents, 656pp. Full green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Covers decorated with a gilt portrait of Lincoln and a gilt illustration of his headstone. Floral endpapers. Solid text block, touch of rubbing to corners of covers. Hinges reinforced with green paper. Text remains bright. Includes a frontispiece portrait of Lincoln and a fold-out facsimile letter written by Lincoln, with a partial tear along top edge. This copy is complete with 24 illustrated plates. (Monaghan 1026) A near fine copy.
