Edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, With a General Introduction by Richard Watson Gilder, and Special Articles by Other Eminent Persons
The Complete Works Edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, With a General Introduction by Richard Watson Gilder, and Special Articles by Other Eminent Persons
Francis D. Tandy Company, 1905.
Gettysburg edition, Edition de Luxe, Number 507 of 700 copies. Twelve volumes, red cloth with gilt titles to spine. 8vo. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Photogravure illustrations with tissue guards including frontispieces to each volume. A superb set, in near fine condition, with the front hinge of vol. 7 partially split. Several pages unopened.
Nicolay and Hay were Lincoln's personal secretaries during the American Civil War, with access to all the President's papers. They produced a monumental history of Lincoln in 1890 and were later encouraged by Lincoln's eldest son, Robert T Lincoln, to collect, edit and publish Lincoln's speeches, letters, state papers and miscellaneous writings, of which this is the very handsome limited edition.
PROVENANCE: From the library of James Porter and Mabel Peck Forsyth, bookplate to each volume.
Stock ID: 46337
£2,250.00
