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Title: Abraham Lincoln. The Celebration of the Centenary of Lincoln's Birth by the New York Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States Author: Place: New York Publisher: Delmonico's Date: February 3, 1909 Description: 12 pp. With mounted photograph, measures 9x5.1 cm (3½x2"). (8vo) 23.5x16.9 cm (9¼x6¼"), cream wrappers, with reproduction in photogravure of Lincoln on front panel. One of 450 copies. The photograph is "printed directly from the original negative made by M. B. Brady, in Washington, 1864, now in the collection of the Americana, of Second Class Companion Frederick Hill Meserve." In addition to the photograph of Lincoln, this commemorative publication includes a copy of the Gettysburg Address, a list of speakers, and the dinner menu. The owner of the original Brady negative used for this pamphlet was F. H. Meserve, a pre-eminent collector of photographs of Lincoln who has been called America's first great photograph collector. Meserve's 1911 book Photographs of Abraham Lincoln is an early landmark of scholarship on the first president ever photographed while in office. Between 1913 and 1915 Meserve produced a privately printed collection of approximately 8,000 cartes-de-visite of nineteenth century figures, including over 100 of Lincoln. Recent scholarship by Stefan Lorant (Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life.) notes that this image was taken on February 24, 1861, not as Meserve believed in 1864. Lot Amendments Condition: Wrappers a bit browned, page with photograph a bit wrinkled; near fine. Item number: 256950