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The assassination of President Lincoln and the trial of the conspirators / compiled and arranged by Benn Pitman.
LIBRA Rare E457.5 .H4 1989 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herold, David E., 1842-1865, defendant.
- Series:
- Notable trials library
- The notable trials library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Assassination.
- Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865.
- Booth, John Wilkes.
- Trials (Assassination)--United States.
- Trials (Assassination).
- Assassination--United States.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 421 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, plan ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Special edition.
- Other Title:
- Assassination of President Lincoln and the trial of the conspirators: David E. Herold, Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Payne, George A. Atzerodt, Edward Spangler, Samuel A. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin
- Place of Publication:
- [Birmingham, Alabama] : [The Notable Trials Library Division of Gryphon Editions, Inc.], [1989, c1865.]
- Notes:
- Trial before a military commission at Washington. D.C.
- Appendix (pages numbered 203-210) at end contains "Facsimile of selected pages from Peterson & Brothers edition of the trial (1865), containing the Verdict of the Military Commission together with President Johnson's approval and his Official Order for the execution of David E. Harold, George A. Atzeroth, Lewis Payne and Mary E. Surratt; an account of their executions; and Mrs. Surratt's petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus with the President's indorsement on the return suspending the writ in this case."
- "This special edition ... has been privately printed for the members of The Notable Trials Library by Arcata Graphics/Kingsport. The introduction was written for this edition by Alan M. Dershowitz ... Film was prepared from an original 1865 edition courtesy of the Yale Law Library. New type matter was composed by P&M Typesetting, Inc. in Bordoni. The text paper was especially made for this edition by the P. H. Glatfelter Company. The volume has been quarter-bound in genuine leather by Arcata Graphics/Sherwood. Endleaves are a specially commissioned original marbled design of Richard J. Wolfe. Edges are gilded; the spine is stamped in 22-karat gold. Cover stampings and design of the edition by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer."--Colophon.
- Reprint. Originally published: Cincinnati and New York : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin Publishers, 1865.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has blue ribbon bookmark.
- OCLC:
- 20214216
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