Frederick Hill Meserve Photographs of Abraham Lincoln
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Photographs of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Privately Printed, 1911. Copy 81 of 102 (including two copies for copyright deposit), signed on the colophon by the author, "F. H. Meserve." Publisher's tan boards. 10 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (27.75 x 22 cm); 111 pp., consisting of 74 pages of text plus over 100 tipped-in gelatin silver prints from the original glass plate negatives, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and ferrotypes in the Meserve Collection. The photographs are arranged by subject: "The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln" (100 images); "Lincoln at Gettysburg" (3); "Mrs. Lincoln and the Sons" (4); "Photographs of the Vice-Presidents, the Speakers, Members of the Cabinet and Others" (12); and "The Interment of Lincoln" (1). The boards with edgewear, rebacked with the original spine laid down, loss to the paper of the joints (the front joint exposed), trace of label removal to foot of spine, internally very fresh indeed. John Wanamaker's copy, with a tipped-in presentation card "The Postmaster General" with Wanameker's signature (Wanamaker was subscriber no 81), with a typed letter signed by Wanamaker; Graham Nash's copy, with his bookplate.
The first major reference on the subject of Lincoln's photographic portraits, beautifully produced with unrivaled plates taken directly from the originals. The book is quite rare in commerce, and was printed on heavy hand-made paper.
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