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<dl><dd>Publisher's note to readers in issue for Jan. 1863 mentions three numbers published in pamphlet form in 1862, in which they intended to "substitute some new matter." Evidently this was never done and these early issues were omitted from the bound v. 1 (1863)</dd>
<dd>Editors: 1862-1869, C.C. Burr ; 1870, T.D. English</dd>
<dd>Subtitle varies among title pages and caption titles</dd>
<dd>Issues within each volume designation paged continuously</dd>
<dd>Text in two columns</dd>
<dd>Issues for Jan.-Feb. 1863 designated as v. 2, no. 1-2, whereas Mar.-Dec. 1863 designated as v. 1, no. 3-12, with consecutive volume numbers thereafter</dd>
<dd>Earliest issue consulted: Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1862)</dd>
<dd>Lincoln collection lacks v. 7, no. 6 (June 1869), and v. 8 (1870)</dd>
<dd>Pamphlets for 1862-1863: Stitched in paper wrappers, with printed lettering on cover</dd>
<dd>Oct. 1864: Pamphlet, stitched, lacks cover</dd>
<dd>Each issue for 1869: Bound in paper wrappers, with printed lettering on covers</dd>
<dd>Bound v. 1 (1863): Bound in textured cloth, with leather corners and spine, gilt-stamped borders on covers, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, tooled spine, and sprinkled edges ; Inscription in ink on prelim. p. [1]: [Word not deciphered], March 11th [crossed out] 22, 1864, Mr. J. [?] Mulford, book, age 56 [?] years old</dd>
<dd>Bound v. 2 (1864): Bound in textured cloth, with leather corners and spine, gilt-stamped borders on covers, and sprinkled edges</dd>
<dd>Bound v. 3 (1865): Bound in cloth, with stamped border on covers, and stamped lettering on spine ; Includes index ; Inscription in pencil on cover p. [2]: G. P. Frierson's book</dd>
<dd>Bound v. 4 (1866): Bound in textured cloth, with leather corners and spine, gilt-stamped borders on covers, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, tooled spine, sprinkled edges, and marbled endpapers ; Includes index ; Inscription in pencil on prelim. p. [1] listing page number references to Lincoln and his contemporaries ; Inscription in pencil on t.p.: Jacob Young, 1/2 mor. cloth ; Signature in ink on p. [705]: Jacob Young</dd>
<dd>Bound v. 5 (1867): Bound in textured cloth, with leather corners and spine, gilt-stamped borders on covers, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, tooled spine, marbled edges and endpapers ; Includes index ; Stamped on prelim. p. [1]: [Abbreviation not deciphered] E. W. Hollingsworth ; Inscription in pencil on prelim. p. [1]: Lincoln pp. 207, 844, 641</dd>
<dd>Bound v. 6 (1868): Bound in textured cloth, with leather corners and spine, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, tooled spine, sprinkled edges ; Engraved portrait, with facsimile signature, on plate facing p. [561] ; Color illustration on [6] leaves of plates ; Includes index ; Inscription in ink on front flyleaf: M. S. Frierson's book</dd>
<dd>Bound v. 1 (1863) and bound v. 2 (1864): Bookplate: St. Louis Mercantile Library Association ; Stamped throughout: St. Louis Mercantile Library ; Inscription in pencil on front flyleaf: Lincoln pp. [extensive list of page numbers]</dd>
<dd>Each issue for 1863 and for 1869: Publisher's advertisements on cover pages</dd>
<dd>June 1862, and pamphlets for 1863: Engraved portrait on frontispiece, accompanied by guard sheet</dd>
<dd>Bound v. 1 (1863), bound v. 2 (1864), and bound v. 4 (1866): Engraved portraits on plates, including frontispiece</dd>
<dd>Pamphlet for Oct.-Dec. 1863: Signature in ink on cover p. [1]: Brinton Coxe</dd>
<dd>Nov. 1869: Inscription in pencil on cover p. [1]: "We are coming Father Abraham" p. 880</dd>
<dd>Dec. 1869: Includes index</dd>
<dd>18</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Slavery</div>
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<dl><dd>Burr, C. Chauncey (Charles Chauncey), 1817-1883</dd>
<dd>English, Thomas Dunn, 1819-1902</dd></dl></div>
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