Story of our post office
Subtitle: the greatest government department in all its phases
By: by Marshall Cushing
Publisher: A.M. Thayer & Co.
Published: 1893
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1034
Copyright date: 1892
Subjects: United States; Postal service; United States. Post Office Dept.; History
Notes: Includes index.

"Illustrated with over four hundred and fifty fine engravings."

Lincoln copy: Bound in leather, with stamped border on covers, gilt-stamped lettering on cover and spine, gilt edges, and marbled endpapers.

Lincoln copy: Lacks front flyleaf and frontispiece.

Lincoln copy: Bears handwritten inscription in ink on t.p.: Victor Judah[?], Oct. 8, 1890.

Lincoln copy: Clippings, most with or accompanied by handwritten inscriptions, from various newspapers affixed to preliminary pages following t.p., p. 1, 1015, and 1034, and back endpaper, including an article titled Lincoln's long lost speech : his address at Convention of 1856, as reproduced forty years later from notes made at the time.

Lincoln copy: Stamp, with date written in ink, affixed to p. [1]: Essex, 14K, Superior ... Courvoisier, Wilcox Mfg. Co., May 1898.