LINCOLN in caricature is a phase of the career of the great war President that has thus far lacked adequate treatment. Yet he was the most bitterly assailed and savagely cartooned public man of his time, and one has only to search the newspapers and periodicals of that period to find striking confirmation of this fact. The attitude of Great Britain toward the Union and its President was then one of cynical and scarcely veiled hostility, and nowhere were the sentiments of the English government and of the English masses more ...
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LINCOLN in caricature is a phase of the career of the great war President that has thus far lacked adequate treatment. Yet he was the most bitterly assailed and savagely cartooned public man of his time, and one has only to search the newspapers and periodicals of that period to find striking confirmation of this fact. The attitude of Great Britain toward the Union and its President was then one of cynical and scarcely veiled hostility, and nowhere were the sentiments of the English government and of the English masses more faithfully reflected than in the cartoons which appeared in London Punch between 1861 and 1865, many of which had Lincoln for their central figure.
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Very Good in a Fair dust jacket. Soiling and edge wear. Chipping to spine's crown and heel. Opened tear to rear flap. Closed tear to front flap.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
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With no dust jacket. Signed / Limited Edition. #548 of 650. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library label on front board and on spine tail. Very slight spine twist. Rear card pocket and pastedown on rear end papers. Spine head and corners are rubbed. Library stamp on pages edges. Else pages a bit age-toned, but clean. No dustjacket.; B&W photographs; BIH16D; 317 pages; Ex-Library.
