Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018

22 c   (BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.) Truesdell, Winfred Porter. Engraved and Lithographed Portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Two (all published—Volume One was never issued). 33 plates including original color woodcut frontispiece and 49 mounted reproductions of photographs. [4], xxvi, 241 pages. 4to, original printed boards, minimal wear; minimal dampstaining; uncut, #30 of 225 copies (one of the 200 on “suede laid” paper), signed by the author on the limitation page. In a custom folding 1 / 4 morocco case by the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Champlain, IL: Troutsdale Press, 1933 [600/900] A useful but scarce work—the only standard reference on Lincoln’s print portraits until the Lincoln Image. None known at auction since 1992. Howes T363 (lists two issues with 14 and 26 preliminary pages, priority unknown). 22 23 #1 IN A VERY LIMITED EDITION 23 c   (BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.) Wilson, Rufus Rockwell. Lincoln in Caricature. 32 plates. 17, [3] pages. Large 4to, 12 3 / 4 x 10 inches, loose plates and a signature of text leaves laid into worn original portfolio boards; toning to title page, minor dampstaining to fore-edge of text leaves, minimal wear to the display- ready caricature reproductions; #1 of 150 copies, issued to N.M. Ladd. [New York]: printed for private distribution, 1903 [1,000/1,500] first edition of a work which was frequently reissued. Reproductions of 32 cartoons of Lincoln, accompanied by Wilson’s commentary. None others traced at auction since Swann sold the Victor Hugo Paltsis copy, 12 October 1944, lot 449.