Lincoln Library of Essential Information

Up for sale is a two-volume set of The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, published by The Frontier Press Company, Buffalo, New York. This is the Sixteenth Edition, 1946 ("Copyright, 1946 / By The Frontier Press Company" per the copyright page). This listing covers BOTH volumes as one set: - Volume I: Language, Literature, History, Geography, Science - Volume II: Mathematics, Economics, Government, Fine Arts, Education, Philosophy, Miscellany, Index The Lincoln Library was a popular home reference encyclopedia — "An Up-To-Date Manual for Daily Reference, for Self-Instruction, and for General Culture, named in appreciative remembrance of Abraham Lincoln." Both volumes are illustrated with plates and maps, and both have thumb-indexed page edges. Fair. Volumes have some starting/cracking to first and back hinges (binding still holds and is sound, tight elsewhere in the book) Both volumes have engraved bookplates inside the front covers. Pages tanned with age but clean and unmarked.