LINCOLN, Abraham GETTYSBURG ADDRESS]. EVERETT, Edward (1794-1865). An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863,) at the Consecration of the Cemetery... New York: Baker & Goodwin, 1863. 8 o (227 x 139 mm). Original pink wrappers (minor spotting), brown quarter-morocco slipcase. Provenance: Frederick W. Skiff (paper bookplate on slipcase) -- Estelle Doheny (enclosed card). FIRST EDITION OF LINCOLN'S IMMORTAL "GETTYSBURG ADDRESS" IN BOOK FORM. The book was preceded only by newspaper printings and a 16-page pamphlet printed for the Washington Chronicle (November 18-20) known from a unique copy in the Horner Collection at the Illinois State Library (see Paul Angle, "Four Lincoln Firsts," in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , 1942, 36:1-17). Here, Lincoln's more famous speech is not noted on the wrappers and appears in the text only after Edward Everett's 29-page oration (p. 40). An appendix includes reports, a detailed account of the Dedication Day ceremonies, and various accounts of the battlefield. Howes E233; Monaghan 193; Sabin 23263; Streeter 3:1747.
LINCOLN, Abraham GETTYSBURG ADDRESS]. EVERETT, Edward (1794-1865). An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863,) at the Consecration of the Cemetery... New York: Baker & Goodwin, 1863. 8 o (227 x 139 mm). Original pink wrappers (minor spotting), brown quarter-morocco slipcase. Provenance: Frederick W. Skiff (paper bookplate on slipcase) -- Estelle Doheny (enclosed card). FIRST EDITION OF LINCOLN'S IMMORTAL "GETTYSBURG ADDRESS" IN BOOK FORM. The book was preceded only by newspaper printings and a 16-page pamphlet printed for the Washington Chronicle (November 18-20) known from a unique copy in the Horner Collection at the Illinois State Library (see Paul Angle, "Four Lincoln Firsts," in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , 1942, 36:1-17). Here, Lincoln's more famous speech is not noted on the wrappers and appears in the text only after Edward Everett's 29-page oration (p. 40). An appendix includes reports, a detailed account of the Dedication Day ceremonies, and various accounts of the battlefield. Howes E233; Monaghan 193; Sabin 23263; Streeter 3:1747.
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