Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery in the United States
By: by Charles Godfrey Leland
Series: The New Plutarch -- [v. 1]
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1881
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery.; Slavery -- United States.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Other titles: Lincoln
Notes: List of series titles precedes frontispiece.

Includes publisher's note stating this "second edition" corrects errors in first English and US editions--p. [3].

Includes index--p. 249-250.

4 pages of publisher's advertisements at end.

The appendix (p. 245-248) reprints a letter from James A. Briggs to the New York Evening Post, published August 16, 1867, recounting Lincoln's 1860 visit to New York to deliver his speech at the Cooper Institute.

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography, 0956v

Copy 1: Book, illustrated cloth binding; on front and back covers: The New Plutarch; Lincoln.

Copy 2: Book, cloth with leather spine.

Copy 1: Publisher's advertisements on front and back endpapers.

Copy 1: Handwritten in ink on front paste-down endpaper: Richard Kimball, Kimball's B[illegible] Texas, May 1883; on t.p.: Richard Kimball 1883.