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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited. Book is clean and tight No Dust Jacket issued. 141 pages. Facsimiles of Original Editions selected and annotated by John E. Pomfret. Blue Board with gilt Presidential Seal on front and gilt lettering on read background on spine. In Slipcase. Previous owner bookplate on inside frontspiece. This edition of 1,000 copies is published for private distribution to friends of our company. We express our sincere appreciation to the Trusatees of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, and especially to Dr. John E. Pomfret, the Director of the Library, for their kindness in making this edition possible - John G. Braun. Contents: Benjamin Franklin: Examination by the House of Commons, 1766; Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, 1776; George Washington: Farewell Address, 1796; Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural Address, 1801; James Madison: The War Message, 1812; James Monroe: The Monroe Doctrine, 1823; Abraham Lincoln: The Inaugurals, 1861, 1865, and The Gettysburg Address, 1863; William Jennings Bryan: The Cross of Gold Speech, 1896; Theodore Roosevelt: Foreign Affairs, 1904, and the Monroe Doctrine, 1905; Woodrow Wilson: Presenting the Treaty of Versailles for Ratification, 1919.