The first published life of Abraham Lincoln, written in the year MDCCCLX
By: by John Locke Scripps ; reprinted in the year MDCCCC, by the Cranbrook press
Publisher: Cranbrook press
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Detroit, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Republican; Campaign literature, 1860
Other titles: Life of Abraham Lincoln
Notes: Edited, with preface, by the author's daughter, Mrs. Grace Locke Scripps Dyche.

Originally issued in 1860 as a campaign document by the New York tribune and the Chicago press and tribune.

"A brief biography of John Locke Scripps ..." by James E. Scripps: p. 11-[13].

Portrait of author.

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography, 0080

Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography, 0843

Bound in paper boards with corners and spine in vellum; frontispiece.

No. 6 of the edition being limited to 245 copies.