Beschreibung:

LINCOLN, Abraham] [LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES]. Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois...As carefully prepared by the reporters of each party, and published at the times of their delivery. Columbus, [Ohio]: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. Large 8 o , publisher's original brown cloth elaborately stamped in blind, gilt spine, half-inch chip at top of spine, not foxed as most copies are; closed tear on pages 95-96, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; with a protective dust jacket and a quarter morocco slipcase. A LINCOLN BEST-SELLER AND AN ENRAGED DOUGLAS: THE FIRST EDITION OF THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE ("2" at bottom of page 17). The first published version of the famous forensic clash between Lincoln and Douglas for the U.S. Senate in 1858. Lincoln realized their effectiveness as campaign material. He had preserved a scrapbook of reports and transcriptions of the debates published by the Chicago Press and Tribune and the Chicago Times , and turned the scrapbook over to an Ohio Republican activist, Oran Follett, whose Columbus firm, Follett Foster & Co., put out the debates (and would later publish Lincoln's campaign biography). Stephen Douglas was apoplectic, and complained that "Mr. Lincoln's speeches have been refined, corrected, and improved...while mine have been mutilated and in some instances the meaning changed." (Douglas to Follett, Foster & Co., 9 June 1860, Lincoln Papers, LOC).