DLE Abraham Lincoln: A History by Nicolay & Hay

10 volume set history of Lincoln by his secretaries. These are nice quality books. Gilt decoration around the endpapers are very nice, as are the marbled papers. Gold edged ribbon was a surprise also. Tissue guard over frontspiece. Lots of illustrations, I didn't find any actual fold out maps. 400 sets at $999 each. Haven't started reading them yet, but expect them to be very good. The photos have been moved to the photo album. Click the pic.

Thanks for the beautiful pics Wootle! Looks great, although I am not a fan of pigskin...

I like the pigskin, it feels thicker, richer.

Just doesn't feel... kosher.

Where does it say pig skin? First time I have heard about it. I don't really mind it

On the limitation page, photo 5.

Thanks. This is a beautiful set. Love the marbled pages

For those interested in a review, check this link out:

http://dl.lib.brown.edu/lincoln/Lincoln_Hay/legacy.html

Below in the middle of the page there is a scanned page with the titel Atlantic Monthly, click it to open up a pdf of the review written by Carl Schurz:

Schurz, Carl. “Abraham Lincoln” (Review of Abraham Lincoln: A History),
The Atlantic Monthly (Boston), Volume 67, Issue 404 (June 1891).

Ironjaw thanks for the link. Looks interesting. Perhaps I should have read reviews before plunking down $1,000 though!

Your welcome! Although I can see that the biography can be seen as a eulogy to Lincoln I do think it is an interesting read and I will probably pick it up. How do you feel about it after reading the review?

I only read the first short review so far, not the longer article it referenced. But I did download the file and love it to my iBooks shelf. It will make for good plane reading on the flight to London next week.

Fantastic, I read the longer review. It is amazing how good reviewers were back then; I mean how well they wrote. I was impressed by his construction of sentences. Have a nice trip to London? First time? Amazing city!

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Don't you mean how "well" they wrote?

Sorry, I just thought it was ironic considering the meaning of your comment. ;)

Yes I did, thanks, I think I used "good" in the last sentence and just had that in mind and wrote it without realising it.

>14 ironjaw:

Don't you mean "realizing"? (see this post for further information) ;-)

I guess next time when I have a headache I should off LT and try not to spell :o)

No second time in London. Trying to hit all the things I ran out of time for last year!

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I've lived here well over a year and still haven't hit everything I want to do.

>1 Wootle:

Thanks for the pics, this looks like a great set. I don't have enough interest in Lincoln or American history/Biography to ever get it myself, so it's fantastic that I still get to see these books through these pics :)

Each time that I visit a city to which I expect someday to return, I focus my sightseeing in a new (to me) and relatively small area of the city.

The last time I was in London, it was for only a short visit. I spent most of my free time in that stretch between Southwark Cathedral and the Tate Modern...and odd choice, perhaps, but it was oddly gratifying.

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That particular section of the South Bank is fascinating, steeped in history and attractions. Not only is there the Tate Modern and Southwark Cathedral, but Shakespeare's Globe, Borough Market, the Millennium Bridge (across to St Pauls) and a glorious view across the Thames into the City. We also know have The Shard, Europe's tallest building (and quite ugly, I think).

Absolutely -- In addition to Southwark Cathedral and the Tate Modern (which, if I remember correctly, marked the endpoints of my two-day haunt), I took a tour of the Globe (but didn't see a play there), crossed the Millenium Bridge to St. Paul's (not my first visit to the cathedral, but the first for my wife), and visited a few other interesting sites (the Golden Hinde, the Clink and I don't remember what else)... Interesting "neighborhood" for a short visit (especially if you have previously visited some of the bigger "draws").

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Silent, I don't find that odd at all. While I will in fact be doing something akin to "London and some nearby attractions" since I will be outside London for 11 of my 18 days (though staying in the city each evening at the same lodging), I actually have planned to visit the Southwark Cathedral (walked by it 2x last trip but never got a chance to go inside) and then do a "South Shore" walk from Southwark Cathedral all the way to Lambeth Palace.

I finally succumbed and bought this DLE series. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to afford it and E/P was very accommodating and agreed to suspend my MoSF subscription while I pay for the DLE. Obviously this only partially covers the monthly cost, but it is a help. I haven’t started reading it yet, but I have looked through every volume and at many of the illustrations and maps. Most, but not all, are on glossy paper, but even those on the standard paper are high quality reproductions. I was also impressed with the quality of the text, especially the smaller footnotes; all are clean and easily readable. I was put off at first by the wide outer margins, which have the chapter number at the top of every page, but I have come to appreciate them. Besides the chapter number the margins have many other notations, most often sources, but also identifying notes when names are not mentioned in the text and other useful information.

While I hadn’t read the review by Carl Schurz in “The Atlantic Monthly” ironjaw supplied the link to, I had read the review by Michal Burlingame (author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life) published in theJournal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. It will be interesting to compare Schurz’s contemporary review with Burlingame’s historical one.