[Rarebooks] FS: Hand-printed Gettysburg Address

[Bob Petrilla]

Lincoln, Abraham. ORATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT THE DEDICATION OF THE
GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETERY, NOVEMBER 19 / 1863. Lexington,
Kentucky: King Library Press, U of Kentucky, 1959. First edition thus. 4pp
including colophon, printed under the direction of Victor Hammer, using
heavy rag stock. Sewn into light-blue rag wrappers, title printed on cover.
12" x 8.5" Very Good.
Limited to 100 copies, typeset and printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. in
the summer of 1959. "The wooden screw press on which this broadside has
been printed is a copy of the late sixteenth century Raimondi Press in the
Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana/Florence: it was built during the years
1926-1930 by Florentine craftsmen working under the direction of Victor
Hammer who had made the drawings for its construction. The Margaret I. King
Library obtained the press in 1954. The present printing is its first use
here." (#038353)        $250.00

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