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Lot 395
[LINCOLN]. WALL, Bernhardt. The Gettysburg Speech. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED, with 2 cancelled plates.
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$536
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[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)]. WALL, Bernhardt (1872-1956). The Gettysburg Speech. New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1924.


Square 8vo. 24 etched plates (see below) printed in different colors, two SIGNED BY WALL in pencil lower margin. Original cloth-backed boards, upper cover with etched title; 2 cancelled copper etched plates set in the front and rear covers. Provenance: Harry Marks (his sale, Swann Galleries, 1959).

LIMITED EDITION, number 6 of 11 copies of the "Cancelled Plate" issue, of a total edition of 111, SIGNED BY WALL AND WITH TWO CANCELLED COPPER ETCHED PLATES BOUND IN.  

The list of plates calls for 23 plates, with plate number 1 being the etched title on the upper cover.  The "Cancelled Plate" issue is EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of two additional plates, being strikes of the two cancelled copper plates bound in printed after the plates were cancelled.  The copper plates comprise plate 10 ("A Civil War Action") and plate 11 ("Text 3").

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