[Rarebooks] fs: Known photographs of Mary Todd Lincoln

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 10208 )  Hart, Charles Henry (1847-1918). CATALOGUE OF THE ENGRAVED 
PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON.
New York: Grolier Club, 1903. Limited edition, Quarter vellum, Folio, xxvi, 
406 pages, black and white plates. Near fine.
      Comprehensive survey of the engraved likenesses of George Washington, 
which took five years to complete. Many are reproduced in full page 
facsimile. The frontispiece is a mezzotint engraved specially for this 
volume by S. Arlent Edwards after an original oil painting from 1798 or 
1799, thus immediately creating an engraving not described in the catalogue! 
Published by the Grolier Club in an edition of only 425 copies. HOWES #H257. 
Bound in slate blue paper over boards with vellum spine and corner tips, 
gilt-stamped spine and boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece and plates, 
deckle fore and bottom edges. Binding shows mild rubs and shallow bumps at 
extremities, slight soil to spine.    $750.00
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(No. 8928 )  Ostendorf, Lloyd. THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MARY TODD LINCOLN.
(Springfield): (Illinois State Historical Society), (1969). Full cloth, 
Octavo, [ii], 64 pages, Black & White photographs. Very Good.
      Catalogue of the 26 known photographic likenesses of Mrs. Lincoln, 
including 4 which were heretofore virtually unknown and published here for 
the first time. Ostendorf here follows the same pattern he and Charles 
Hamilton used in their definitive work on the photographs of Abraham 
Lincoln. Each image herein is accompanied by the relevant information known 
about it, and is given a unique number. Bound in pictorial printed cloth 
over boards. Light rubs at corner tips and at upper joint near head of 
spine. A few scattered spots of foxing to textblock edges, light soil to 
white lower board. No prior ownership marks.    $150.00
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