The type of this edition was taken directly from the 20 November 1863 issue of the Washington Daily Morning Chronicle, published by John W.
One of the greatest of all Lincoln rarities, constituting the earliest separate printing of Lincoln's address, preceded only by newspaper printings. "…of the people, by the people, and for the people…": the first separate printing of Lincoln's most celebrated utterance-a new discovery, previously unknown to bibliographers, and the only copy in private hands among five known extant. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Chronicle Office. Edward Everett, Speech of President Lincoln. The Gettysburg Solemnities: Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863.
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