LORD CHARNWOOD — Abraham Lincoln

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co, 1917. Reprint. Early Reprint. Hard Cover. Publisher's full burgundy cloth, black lettering on spine. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Lincoln. "Lord Charnwood's biography of Abraham Lincoln is a superbly written and well-researched account of the lauded American statesman and President's life." NB: Godfrey Rathbone Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood was a British author, academic, Liberal politician, and philanthropist. Educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, he lectured in philosophy before serving as MP for Woodstock (1892–1895) and as Mayor of Lichfield. Raised to the peerage in 1911, he wrote noted biographies of Abraham Lincoln (1916) and Theodore Roosevelt (1923).. Former owner's printed bookplate on fep and signature on ffep, front hinge sprung, else very good, otherwise unmarked, tight, and square. GOOD.. Frontispiece Portrait. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. vi, (ii), 482 pages. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket .