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[LINCOLN -- GETTYSBURG ADDRESS]. EVERETT, Edward. An Oration Delivered on The Battlefield of Gettysburg, (November 19, 1863) at the Consecration of the Cemetery. New York, 1863. 8o. Half cloth and marbled boards. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF LINCOLN'S MOST CELEBRATED UTTERANCE. Lincoln's address appears on p.40, following the 29-page oration of Everett. Also included are reports of the dedication ceremonies, newspaper accounts of the battle and a speech of Seward. Lincoln's address is not mentioned on the title page. Howes E-233; Monaghan 193; Sabin 23263; Streeter 3:1747; Printing and the Mind of Man 351 ("Everett's speech, every word of which is now forgotten, lasted two hours, Lincoln's address...comprised ten sentences and took only a few minutes to deliver. From the first words--'Four score and seven years ago'-- to the last--'that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth '--it is immortal, one of the supreme utterances of the principles of democratic freedom.") -- Another edition. Boston, 1864. 8o. Frontispiece, color folding map of cemetery. Half-morocco and marbled boards with original wrappers bound-in (spine chipped, rubbed). Quarter-morocco folding case. Howes E-232. (2)