The Lincoln Tribute Book: Appreciations by Statesmen, Men of Letters, and Poets at Home and Abroad. Together with A Lincoln Centenary Medal from the Second Design made for the Occasion by Roiné
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Frontispiece portrait, two plates. Cloth over boards. Sixteenmo. xii, 146 pages.
Centennial tribute to Abraham Lincoln, including a mounted medal by the master French-American sculptor and medal engraver of the era, Jules Edouard Roiné.
Text includes a biography of Roiné, a history of the medal, and a large number of excellent tributes to Lincoln. The Roiné medal measures slightly more than 3 cm in diameter, features Lincoln's full face on the obverse, text on the reverse, and is inserted into a thick, die-cut pasteboard mount that reveals both sides.
Ref.: MONAGHAN 1763.
Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles. A circular illustration of medal is inset on upper board within a blind-stamped wreath. A few tiny extremity rubs, else fine, with gilt titling remaining bright.
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