The Unique and Final Holograph Manuscript of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Together With an Album of Other Manuscripts and Autographs (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Album containing Autograph Manuscripts and a few Autograph Letters Signed, together 95 pieces described in the following pages and to be sold as one lot. Bound in a 4to volume, full purple morocco, sides with a framework of gilt fillets, with an emblematic design in gilt in center of each cover; doublures and fly-leaves of white watered-silk; lettered on backstrip Autograph Leaves, 1864' During the War between the States, fairs were held throughout the northern States for the benefit of wounded soldiers and sailors and their families. Baltimore, stirred by the same spirit of patriotism, was not to be outdone. Col. Alexander Bliss and the Hon. J. P. Kennedy (author of Swallow Barn and a former member of Congress) conceived a plan to raise money at the Maryland State Fair for the Benefit of the Sanitary and Christian Commis sions, referred to elsewhere in this brochure as the Sanitary Commission Fair, to open at Baltimore on April 18, 1864. They sent a circular to prominent American authors, soliciting from each a page or two of autograph manuscript to be published in facsimile in a small quarto volume entitled Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors and sold for the benefit of the Fair.

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