Abraham Lincoln
Lord Charnwood
£12.00
Abraham Lincoln
By Lord Charnwood (Godfrey Rathbone Benson). Edited by Basil Williams
Published by Constable & Company, London, 1924. Hardback. No dust jacket. Red boards. Approx 23cm H x 15.5cm W. 479pp; B&w photograph of Lincoln to frontis; Index; Fold-out map. Book Condition: Good. Previous owner's name and date (Nov, 7th '24) neatly written in ink on the front endpaper; Clean pages & text with no annotations or tears; Spine faded; Some marking to the outer boards; Rough-cut edges; Dust stained outer page edges. Overall - Good.
An early biography of Lincoln, first published in 1916 and still well regarded a hundred years later. Godfrey Benson, an English scholar who was born the year before Lincoln was assassinated, and made a baron in 1911, writes convicingly of Lincoln's statesmanship, as well as offering a deeper view of the man, his beliefs and personality.