Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Dyche, Grace Locke Scripps, 1863-1924, editor.
Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906.
Dyche, Grace Locke Scripps, 1863-1924.
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882.
Cranbrook Press, printer.
Monastery Hill Bindery, binder.
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| Provenance: | Copy 1: Former owner's signature: Chas. T.[?]. White[?] 1916.
Copy 1: Laid-in newspaper clipping announcing the publication of the 1900 limited edition of Scripps' "First published life of Abraham Lincoln."
Copy 1: Tipped-in letter (dated 5 January 1899) and postcard (dated 7 March 1900) from Grace L.S. Dyche to Wm. H. Laubert regarding the publication of the Cranbrook Press edition.
Copy 1: Tipped-in clipping advertsing the reprint of Scripps' "Life" by Cranbrook Press.
Copy 2: Extra-illustrated copy: 35 leaves of plates bound in chiefly consisting of portraits of Lincoln, a number of which are set in windowpane leaves with information regarding the image written in pencil on the verso; 2 additional laid-in illustrations; 4-page letter on mourning stationery from Mary Lincoln dated 24 December [18]65 on plate facing page 45 of text; the final added plate is an invitation from the Chicago Historical Society for their celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth; also bound in at end is a porcelain portrait of Lincoln measuring 23 x 15 cm.
Copy 1: University of Chicago Library's copy: no. 9.
Copy 2: University of Chicago Library's copy: no. 23.
Copy 1: Binding: Half-bound vellum and paper over boards; gilt stamped leather spine label.
Copy 2: Binding: Gilt tooled green morocco over boards; green silk doublures and endpapers; gilt dentelles; signed: The Monastery Hill Bindery.
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| Notes: | The frontispiece is a portrait of the author.
Edited, with preface, by the author's daughter, Mrs. Grace Locke Scripps Dyche.
"Printed at the Cranbrook Press, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. in the year MDCCCC, this edition being limited to 245 copies ..."--Colophon.
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--Pages 11-13.
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