(1832-1918) First Lady of the United States from March to September 1881 as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States. Inscribed to her husband's close friend Almon Rockwell: the only eyewitness of two presidents' deaths! A fine association piece, the oversize volume 'Edudes in Modern French Art' by E. Strahan (New York: Richard Worthington, 1881), 122pp. folio, bound in linen with gold accents and inscribed on the first free endpaper to General Almon Rockwell: 'To my good friends Col. & Mrs. Rockwell. In memoriam. Xmas 1881 Lucretia R. Garfield'. Rockwell was an Army officer and superintendent of public buildings in Washington, D.C., and had the tragic distinction of being the only person to have been at the side of both Abraham Lincoln and James A. Garfield upon their deaths. Of Garfield's assassination on Sept. 19, 1881, he wrote: 'Let this pernicious day stand aye accursed in the calendar!'. A couple of tears to linen on spine, corners slightly bumped, light, scattered foxing, very good.