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THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
 BY FREDERICK HILL MESERVE 
 
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 An Advertisement of A Book 
 which will contain Photographic 
 Prints of all known Photographs 
 of Abraham Lincoln, printed from 
 the Original Negatives, and from 
 Copies of the Daguerreotypes, 
 Ambrotypes, and Photographs, 
 with the History of each Portrait. 
 
 NEW YORK 
 OCTOBER, 1910 
 
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THE BOOK 
 
 THERE is now in preparation 
 a sumptuous book of the 
 Photographs of Abraham 
 Lincoln from the collection of 
 Frederick Hill Meserve of New 
 York, which is believed to contain 
 all of the known photographs of the 
 great War President. 
 
 This work, to be on a scale not 
 attempted hitherto, is designed to be 
 the authority on the subjed. It will 
 be the permanent record of the real 
 Lincoln. From these photographs 
 all the engravings, etchings, litho- 
 graphs and paintings have been 
 made, with the exception of the 
 very few paintings made from life. 
 
 The paper will be of the higher 
 grade, hand made, with size of 
 page about 9x11 inches. The 
 text will be printed from clear, 
 large type, with wide margins. 
 
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The frontispiece will be an excep- 
 tionally fine photograph accompanied 
 with a letter in facsimile from Mr. 
 Robert T. Lincoln in which he 
 ^ates his preference for it as the 
 be^ likeness of his father. 
 
 THE TEXT 
 
 In addition to a descriptive mono- 
 graph there will be a numbered lift 
 corresponding to the chronological 
 arrangement of the photographs. 
 This lift will consift of data gathered 
 from many sources concerning the 
 time, place and conditions of the 
 making of the portraits, credit being 
 given, as far as may be, to the 
 sources from which the information 
 and portraits were obtained. 
 
 THE PHOTOGRAPHS 
 
 The photographic prints will be 
 made in black and white, on high 
 grade portrait paper of carte-de- 
 
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visite size, the size in vogue during 
 the Civil War. Some are from the 
 original negatives themselves. Where 
 copies of other photographs have 
 been made great care has been 
 taken to use the originals without 
 re-touching. A fevv^ of the portraits 
 show scratches and defeds of the 
 films and varnish, but even when 
 made from faded and poor, but 
 often rare originals, they are not 
 less intere^ing and valuable. Of 
 some photographs that were widely 
 circulated during Lincoln's life only 
 a few copies are known to-day. 
 
 The colledion will be confined 
 to life photographs. Copies of paint- 
 ings and engravings, which are often 
 erroneously included under this head, 
 will not be used. 
 
 In addition to nearly 1 00 of the 
 portraits of Lincoln there will be 
 contemporary life photographs of 
 
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Mrs. Lincoln and the three sons, 
 the Vice-Presidents, and members 
 of the Cabinets, comprising in all 
 about 1 20 portraits. 
 
 THE EDITION 
 
 Only 100 numbered and signed 
 copies of the book will be made, 
 and of these about 90 will be for 
 sale. The book will be privately 
 printed and without copyright. 
 
 THE PRICE 
 
 The price will be $35 for each 
 copy, payable upon delivery, car- 
 riage paid. 
 
 If the hi^orical value of the text 
 and lis, the coS of paper, printing, 
 binding, and of the labor of prepar- 
 ation, should be entirely eliminated, 
 this price for the photographs of 
 Lincoln alone, some of which are 
 very rare and not to be found else- 
 where, would not be excessive. 
 
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The book will be attradlively 
 bound in boards. If desired it will 
 be delivered in sheets for private 
 binding. 
 
 SUBSCRIPTION 
 
 Subscriptions will be filled in the 
 order received and copies numbered 
 to correspond. As about 1 2,000 
 photographic prints mu^ be made 
 for the edition and each copy pre- 
 pared separately, the books can 
 only be delivered as made, several 
 months being required to complete 
 them all. It is believed that the 
 small number will be quickly taken 
 by colledors of Lincolniana, libra- 
 ries, hiflorical societies, and lovers 
 of rare books. 
 
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 F. H. MESERVE. 
 
 265 Edgecombe Ave., 
 
 New York City. 
 
 The undersigned agrees to take 
 cop of THE PHOTO- 
 GRAPHS OF ABRAHAM 
 LINCOLN, described in your 
 advertisement of October, 1910, 
 for which will pay $35 for each 
 copy upon delivery. 
 
 Address 
 
Printed by A. Kimball Co., New York City 
 
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