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Very Good. 1943. Hardcover. Cloth. Octavo. Two volume set (published 1943 & 1945). xlv & 519 pp, xi & 560 pp. Mild shelf wear to boards. Altogether a set in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Books on Books).
Edition:
Presumed First Edition Presumed first printing
Publisher:
Illinois State Historical Library
Published:
1943
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16735276700
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Fair. VOLUME ONE ONLY. Copyright date of 1943 overwritten by 1945 when second volume was published and the two volume set was released. xlv, [1], 519, [1] pages. Cover has wear, staining, and soiling. Pencil and ink marks and comments noted inside the front board and throughout the text. From the foreword: "This scholarly and elaborate bibliography appears at a time when it may be said that the Lincoln subject as an intellectual interest has come of age. That the Illinois State Historical Library sponsors and publishes this new bibliography is evidence of continued service in a field in which the library's contributions have long enjoyed distinguished recognition. Whether one is interested in solid research on Lincoln or likes to wander in the wide reaches of 'Lincolniana' that appeal to the collector and the amateur, the present work will prove indispensable." In 1943, Volume One of the long-awaited bibliography was printed. Two years later, the second volume was completed and both were released. Reviewers were generally pleased with the work. Paul Angle, who had left the ISHL that year to become the director of the Chicago Historical Society, applied the adjective "definitive" in describing the bibliography. The Monaghan bibliography effectively stifled all competition and prevails to this day [from a 1993 on-line posting]. The voluminous output of Lincoln studies is now estimated at more than ten thousand titles. Depending on one's definition of what constitutes Lincolniana, that number may be either doubled or halved. In fact, the quest for an adequate Lincoln bibliography has troubled both collectors and scholars for more than a hundred years. Five major bibliographies have appeared in print since 1865; four by collectors and the fifth, a two-volume work by the Illinois State Historical Library, is titled Lincoln Bibliography, 1839-1939. This work is commonly spoken of as the "Monaghan bibliography" or "Monaghan, " a reference to its editor James Jay Monaghan. It has been-and continues to be-one of the most widely consulted reference works on Lincoln. he interest in collecting Lincolniana followed immediately after the Emancipator's assassination. Hundreds of funeral sermons were published and eagerly sought by a bereaved American public. Funeral displays honoring the martyred president were picked apart, piece by piece, as souvenir hunters tried to obtain a small remembrance of the occasion. Splinters of wood from rails touched by the axe of Old Abe became more valuable-and more numerous-than those of the true cross. By the turn of the century, Lincoln collecting and collectors flourished. In spite of the renewed fervor in Lincoln scholarship and collecting, little progress was made on the bibliographic front. Such a state of affairs was ironic because the 1920s and 1930s were something approaching a golden age in bibliographic compilation in the United States and Great Britain. In 1935, Professor Pease assisted Paul Angle in formulating a new definition of "Lincolniana, " the one that served as the guideline for the ISHL Lincoln bibliography. The Pease-Angle definition included only printed matter-books, pamphlets, and broadsides-dealing with Lincoln, his ancestry, and his family would be considered. A grey area left to the discretion of the editors would be advertising bulletins, pamphlets and pictures, menus, programs of school exercises, and other miscellaneous materials. Pease was instructed to begin work on the Lincoln bibliography once the preliminaries had been agreed upon. But by the end of 1938 the disagreement between Pease and Angle concerning the priorities of research and the relationship between the Survey and the ISHL overshadowed any further work on the bibliography. In June 1939, the appropriation for a historical researcher passed the Illinois Senate, and James Jay Monaghan was selected to complete the Lincoln Bibliography project. Monaghan officially joined the Illinois State...
