Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln; With an Introduction by John Wesley Hill, and Special Articles by Other Eminent Persons. New and Enlarged Edition

Octavo, [twelve volumes]. Full red leather, title in gilt on spines with decorative gilt embellishments on spines and covers. Top edges gilt, lightly worn. All volumes appear unread, with no markings or marginalia. Minor shelf wear and sunning. Light dust along top edge of text blocks. Limitation page in Volume I notes that this is copy number 156, prepared for Thew Wright, M.D., with his bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. Includes signed limitation page from John Wesley Hill, the Chancellor of Lincoln Memorial University. (Monaghan 1471). An exceptional set. The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, first published in 1894, was edited and compiled by President Lincoln's private secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay. The 1894 edition was the first scholarly attempt to collect and publish the complete writings of Lincoln. The New and Enlarged Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln was issued in 1905 by the Francis D. Tandy Company. This edition from 1926, The Sponsors' Edition, was published using the plates from the New and Enlarged work, with an introduction by the Chancellor of Lincoln Memorial University. …