Download

Download Full Text (8.1 MB)

Description

This book contains the dedicatory speech for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, delivered by the educator, politician, and orator Edward Everett on November 19, 1863. It also contains the much shorter and more famous “Gettysburg Address” (p.40) delivered by President Abraham Lincoln for this same occasion. The book is 9.25 inches tall. It is a cloth-bound copy of a work originally issued in printed wrappers.

Publication Date

1863

Publisher

Baker & Godwin

City

New York

Keywords

Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, Edward Everett, Battle of Gettysburg, Oratory

Disciplines

United States History

Comments

Versions of the “Gettysburg Address” were immediately published in newspapers. This printing of Lincoln’s address in Everett’s book is virtually its first publication in book form. Scholars have discovered only one extremely rare16-page pamphlet publication preceding Everett’s book in which the “Gettysburg Address” was printed. This pamphlet is called “The Gettysburg Solemnities” and was published by the Washington Daily Chronicle. Everett’s book was originally issued in printed wrappers, but Everett had some cloth-bound copies made to give to dignitaries and friends. This item is one of those cloth-bound copies.

An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863)

Share

COinS