Lincoln

665 p. + Plus 10 powerful portrait engravings (a few from lifetime photographs, including a fine engraving of Lincoln from a Brady photo). Original full cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gold gilt. 8vo. 240 mm. Mildly XLib. A handsome piece of post Civil War political and historical propaganda. "Of all the political organizations in America, none has had so hard a struggle for national existence as that known as the Republican Party of today; nor has any political party in any country or age achieved so much for the advance of human liberty and the elevation upon a common platform of the religious and civil equality of all men before the law." - Rolander Guy McClellan. DC16 / YORK. W26