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THBFrederick Hill Meserve, First Galley Proof of The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, 1910
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LiveJun 22, 2018
Cowan’s American History: Premier Auction, scheduled for June 22, 2018 is comprised of early photographs, documents, manuscripts, broadsides, flags, and more dating from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Late Indian Wars, World War I and II and beyond. Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com
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Meserve, Frederick Hill. The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln. Galley proof #1 of the edition of 100 privately published by the author in New York, 1910 (ultimately 1911). Original leaves 8.5 x 10.75 in., professionally rebound in red boards with cloth spine and an engraving of Lincoln on the cover and a calligraphed introductory page identifying it as the “Original Proof Book” in the collection of Jack L. Smith. 71 original pages, hand-numbered in pencil by Meserve, with archival spacers. Blocks of printed text marked “Galley 1” are pasted to the pages with Meserve’s edits in pencil in the margins, along with CDV-sized copy prints of each of the 100 poses known to Meserve at the time. Primarily silver gelatin, with some albumen and salt prints.
A unique and exceptionally important piece representing the first serious attempt to catalogue the photographs of Abraham Lincoln. This first draft of that attempt contains a page which Meserve reserves for a foreword by Robert Todd Lincoln, but the foreward in later editions would be written by literary icon and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who noted that, “it is quite probable that certain Lincoln photographs would not have come to light but for Meserve.” The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln remained the definitive catalogue of Lincoln photographs until it was expanded upon by Lloyd Ostendorf and Charles Hamilton in 1963, who dedicated their work, now considered exhaustive, “To the Distinguished Historian Frederick Hill Meserve.
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The Mr. & Mrs. Jack L. Smith Collection of Lincolniana
Lots 328-342 include several selections from the collection of Mr. & Mrs. Jack L. Smith of South Bend, Indiana. Inspired by his wife Pat, an antique dealer, Jack began collecting photographs of Abraham Lincoln in 1959, and over the years expanded his interests to include Lincoln-related engravings, books, ephemera, and art, eventually amassing one of the most extensive collections of Lincolniana in existence. Items from the collection now reside at several museums and historic sites, including at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, and Indiana Historical Society, which acquired the Jack Smith Lincoln Graphics Collection of over 750 images in 2003. See also Lots 183 and 211.
Provenance: The Mr. & Mrs. Jack L. Smith Collection of LincolnianaExcellent.Condition
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