Provenance: Marshall D. Krolick Collection

City Document. No. 106. Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Burial of Massachusetts Dead at Gettysburg. Boston: J.E. Farwell and Company, 1863.

8vo. Folding map.  Original brown cloth gilt-lettered. FIRST EDITION. Carbonell, Gettysburg Address, 5a; Monaghan 193; Sabin 27248.

VERY EARLY PRINTING OF THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. 

An 1863 first edition copy of Boston's accounting of Massachusetts's dead at the Battle of Gettysburg. Notably, the book prints a very early edition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Carbonell records this printing as the second book-form edition of the Address, noting "the imprint date...is 1863 but since the report they contain is dated December 28, 1862 it seems likely that they were not available until early in 1864." 

Also included is Massachusetts politician Edward Everett's much longer oration, given at the consecration of the Cemetery at Gettysburg as well. Considered one of the great American orators of the antebellum and Civil War eras, Everett was a featured speaker alongside Lincoln at the dedication ceremony of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. 

The fine printing is further enhanced by the included map of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in excellent condition. 

VERY RARE. OCLC locates only 2 copies, and only 6 copies have been sold at auction in the last 100 years. 

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