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Scarce Original 1883 Edition Lincoln Memorial ~ Album Immortelles 126 Year Old Book! On consignment this week, we are proud to offer a scarce, 126 year old volume dated 1883(MDCCCLXXXIII) This important work is titled: "THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL: ALBUM-IMMORTELLES" ORIGINAL LIFE PICTURES, WITH AUTOGRAPHS, COLLECTED AND EDITED BY OSBORN H. OLDROYD. WITH AN INTRODUCTON BY MATTHEW SIMPSON, D.D., LL.D., AND A SKETCH OF THE PATRIOT'S LIFE BY HON. ISAAC N. ARNOLD. This Book was originally Sold By Subscription Only at the time so t are only a limited number of these original works published and fewer still that have survived intact over time. The Lincoln Memorial: Album-Immortelles. Introduction by Matthew Simpson. Biography by Isaac N. Arnold. Illustrated with portraits, views, facsimile signatures. It is a Scarce item of Lincolniana, containing extracts from his speechs and letters and many contributions by others. Description & Condition : The Lincoln Memorial Album of Immortelles by Osborn H.I. Oldroyd - Published by G.W. Carleton & Co. , New York - This book, is an original edition dated 1883. With a voluminous 571 pages and Illustrated with portraits, views, facsimile signatures, i t is a Scarce item of Lincolniana, containing extracts from his speechs and letters and many contributions by others. It measures approx. 9 1/4" tall by 6 1/4"wide and is nicely bound in red cloth with Gilt title lettering & decorations on the cover and spine. Cover is a bit worn from age but still retains most of the original gilding. Corners are slightly bumped & frayed. Inner front gutter paper is split. Binding is nice & tight, no loose or missing pages. It even retains its original tissue guard on the beautifully detail steel engraving of Lincoln on the frontispiece. The pages are bright and just lightly toned from age with very little foxing throughout which is amazing for a volume that is over a century old! Overall, a very nice, very clean original copy of a very rare and important work. Bid Early To Avoid Disappointment! Most copies are already in private collections. This book is extremely scarce, let alone in such a lovely condition as this! We offer it with no reserve so don't miss out on your chance to get one of these rare volumes for your private library.Good Luck With Your Bidding! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sergeant Osborn Hamiline Ingham Oldroyd, whose initials spell OHIO, was only nineteen years old when he enlisted with the 2Oth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He joined the Union Army at Camp Chase, Ohio, on October 15, 1861, and was mustered out of the same camp on July 19, 1865. During the years he spent in the Union Army, he recorded historical data as well as personal observations of the war. His book, A Soldier's Story of the Siege of Vicksburg, published in 1885, gives a sixty-five day account of the Vicksburg Campaign -- beginning May I, 1863, after Grant landed his army on the east bank of the Mississippi River, and ending July 4, 1863, with the surrender of Vicksburg. Of slavery, Oldroyd expressed that he wanted all men held in bondage set free. However, he worried that many of the blacks would be leaving good homes in search of unfulfilled dreams. Of the South in general, he noted the lack of schoolhouses and determined that the poor whites as well as the blacks were not receiving a proper education. He often commented on the soldiers' love of coffee. He even commiserated on the misery of getting 'chiggers' while blackberry picking. And, in one rare confession, he wrote that he was quite intrigued by the concept of plantation life. Of the Union Army, led by Grant, McPherson, Logan, and Sherman, he bragged of nev...
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