Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858.

BEVERIDGE, Albert J. [Abraham Lincoln].

$3,000.00

Item Number: 146970

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.

Limited manuscript edition of this complex and revealing biography of one of the most popular Presidents of the United States. Octavo, four volumes bound in the publisher’s cherry-red three-quarter crushed morocco at the Riverside Press with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, red silk ribbons tipped in, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln and additional tissue-guarded color plate views of the Lincoln Memorial to each volume, illustrated with thirty-two tissue-guarded plates and maps throughout, window-mounted leaf of the author’s manuscript research notes adhered to the front flyleaf of Vol. I, some pages uncut, stamp-signed by the Riverside Press. One of one thousand numbered sets printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, U. S. A., this is number 130. In fine condition, bookplate from the library of American banker and philanthropist Frank K. Houston to the front flyleaf of Vol. II. An exceptional set.

Praised for his biographies of Chief Justice John Marshall and President Abraham Lincoln, American historian and United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge has introduced the public to the realities of the lives of revered historical figures. Using analysis and thorough investigation, Beveridge was able to contextualize the actions of America's sixteenth president with his traditions and influences in his four-volume biography 'Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858,' published post-humously in 1928. His contributions to historical study cannot be understated, and the American Historical Association's Beveridge Award exists to demonstrate as much.