[MINIATURE BOOK.] WALL, Bernhardt, etcher. Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech. Sierra Madre, Calif., 1946.
[MINIATURE BOOK.] WALL, Bernhardt, etcher. Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech. Sierra Madre, Calif., 1946.

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[MINIATURE BOOK.] WALL, Bernhardt, etcher. Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech. Sierra Madre, Calif., 1946.

43 x 31 mm. 34 etched leaves, 11 with portraits, views or scenes, printed in green or brown. Original green leather, mounted in sunken panel on card with watercolor border surrounding book. Original boards (front cover detached, flyleaf loose). Provenance: George A. Zabriskie (presentation inscription).

LIMITED EDITION, number 6 of 200 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WALL on the flyleaf: "To George A. Zabriskie, Esq. with my deepest regards. Bernhardt Wall. Oct. 1946." According to the small, etched slip bound at end, the work was etched, printed and bound by Wall.

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