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090 $aE337.8$b.C59 1854x
100 1 $aClay, Henry,$d1777-1852.
245 14 $aThe life and speeches of Henry Clay /$c[compiled and edited by Daniel Mallory].
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bJ.L. Gihon,$c1854.
300 $a2 v. in 1 :$bill., port. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aInscription in ink, front flyleaf: "This book was used by Abraham Lincoln when making his first great antislavery speeches, preceding the memorable campaign with Douglas. He quoted largely from Clay's speeches with wonderful effect. [Signed,] Jas. W. Somers (formerly of Urbana, Illinois, then a young lawyer and personal friend of Mr. Lincoln). [The closing parenthetical statement was added by Mr. Somers at a later time, and he continues:] In reading from this book I distinctly remember that Mr. Lincoln, for the first time, used spectacles, apologizing to his audience, saying that he was not as young as he used to be; this was, I think, in the fall of 1856. James W. Somers."
500 $aBusiness card affixed to front lining paper: James W. Somers, attorney at law and notary public ... Urbana, Illinois.
500 $aIncludes tipped-in leaf (25 x 20 cm., folded to 20 cm.) preceding contents p. containing inscription in ink on plain verso of lined paper: "James Somers, I personally know to be a most worthy member; whether he can be promoted must be left to the secretary. A. Lincoln, June 11, 1863."
500 $aIncludes excised newspaper column affixed to prelim. p. endorsing the Whig ticket, including Henry Clay for president, from Southern Watch-Tower, Fayette, Mississippi, and dated Nov. 2, 1843.
500 $aIncludes marginalia on 27 pages, either annotations by Lincoln or indications of passages having been read by Lincoln in his speeches.
500 $aAnnotation in pencil, p. 281: "Quoted by Lincoln in his first great anti Nebraska speech at Urbana, Ill. from this book."
500 $aFrontispiece portrait of Clay opposite etching of "The birth place of Henry Clay, Hanover Co., Va."
561 $aInscription in blue pencil, prelim. p.: James W. Somers, bought of [continuing in grey pencil] Thos. A. McSaurie, Urbana, Ill.
561 $aBook is item No. 81 listed in Library of the late Major William H. Lambert of Philadelphia; Part I, Lincolniana, First Section. Acquired from Major Lambert's collection from 1914 purchaser. Provenance of book further proven through damaged and repaired spine (apparently burned in a fire in the Lambert library).
561 $aPurchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc., 18 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108.
563 $aBound in decorative embossed leather boards, with remains of earlier leather spine with (gold stamped lettering) affixed to this spine, with marbled facings.
600 10 $aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865$xBooks and reading.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1815-1861.
600 10 $aClay, Henry,$d1777-1852.
700 1 $aMallory, Daniel,$dd. 1854?
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