The Writings of Abraham Lincoln.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power": The Writings of Abraham Lincoln; Finely Bound with a Signed Appointment by Lincoln Bound In
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln.
LINCOLN, Abraham .
Item Number: 5067
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905.
Limited edition set. Large octavo, 8 volumes. Bound in contemporary three quarters red morocco, top edge gilt, gilt tooling the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel. One of a 1,000 numbered copies with a document signed by Lincoln and William Seward bound into volume four, appointing Addison L. Clarke as Consul of the United States in China, 14 February 1865, with the Presidential seal with some tape repairs to verso,
Ranging from finely honed legal argument to dry and sometimes savage humor to private correspondence and political rhetoric of unsurpassed grandeur, the writings collected in this volume are at once the literary testament of the greatest writer ever to occupy the White House and a documentary history of America in Abraham Lincoln's time. They record Lincoln's campaigns for public office; the evolution of his stand against slavery; his pyrotechnic debates with Stephen Douglas; his conduct of the Civil War; and the great public utterances of his presidency, including the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.
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