Lincoln Bibliography: A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln.

FISH, Daniel. [Abraham Lincoln].

$1,500.00

Item Number: 131214

New York: Francis D. Tandy Company, 1906.

First edition and signed, registered, and numbered edition of the first comprehensive bibliography of Lincoln material. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Lincoln after the original etching by Thomas Johnson. One of seventy-five numbered, registered copies signed by the author and publisher, only forty of which were for sale, this is number 34. Very good in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase.

Daniel Fish was "...one of the "Big Five" who dominated collecting of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia and publications in the 1890s and early 1900s. His greatest contribution to the field of Lincoln collecting was his compilation of the "Lincoln Bibliography: A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln" published in 1906. This was the first publication to establish definitions and standards for classifying Lincolniana" (The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection).