LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph album inscribed and signed: "For Miss Lillie Scidmore, A. Lincoln, Oct. 24, 1864." Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
8o, 54 leaves containing 77 autographs, the last 42 blank leaves. Brown morocco, cover and spine gilt, front and back covers blind tooled (rebound by a later owner with a partial, typed list of the contents). Provenance: Edward and Charity Martin (bookplate and signature on flyleaf); Edward M. Schaff (typed note bound in).
LINCOLN INSCRIBES THIS AUTOGRAPH BOOK FOR AN EIGHT-YEAR OLD WASHINGTONIAN, LILLIE SCIDMORE. Lillie later collected the signatures of four other presidents as well as numerous other political, diplomatic and literary luminaries of the Civil War era, such as Andrew Johnson (beneath Lincoln's signature), as President; Ulysses S. Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes, as President; Chester A. Arthur, as President; Philip H. Sheridan; John A. Sutter (discoverer of gold in California); Alexander Stephens; Schuyler Colfax (as Speaker of the House); Thaddeus Stevens; Nathaniel P. Banks; Henry Raymond; William Evarts; William F. ("Baldy") Smith; Benjamin F. Butler; Clara Barton; Christopher ("Kit") Carson; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Clarence King; John Sherman, and others.
LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph album inscribed and signed: "For Miss Lillie Scidmore, A. Lincoln, Oct. 24, 1864." Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
8o, 54 leaves containing 77 autographs, the last 42 blank leaves. Brown morocco, cover and spine gilt, front and back covers blind tooled (rebound by a later owner with a partial, typed list of the contents). Provenance: Edward and Charity Martin (bookplate and signature on flyleaf); Edward M. Schaff (typed note bound in).
LINCOLN INSCRIBES THIS AUTOGRAPH BOOK FOR AN EIGHT-YEAR OLD WASHINGTONIAN, LILLIE SCIDMORE. Lillie later collected the signatures of four other presidents as well as numerous other political, diplomatic and literary luminaries of the Civil War era, such as Andrew Johnson (beneath Lincoln's signature), as President; Ulysses S. Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes, as President; Chester A. Arthur, as President; Philip H. Sheridan; John A. Sutter (discoverer of gold in California); Alexander Stephens; Schuyler Colfax (as Speaker of the House); Thaddeus Stevens; Nathaniel P. Banks; Henry Raymond; William Evarts; William F. ("Baldy") Smith; Benjamin F. Butler; Clara Barton; Christopher ("Kit") Carson; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Clarence King; John Sherman, and others.
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