![[CIVIL WAR]. Everett, Edward (1794-1865). Address delivered at the Consecration of The Soldier's Cemetery at Gettysburg, on the Nineteenth of November 1863. Boston: J. E. Farewell and Co., Printers, No. 37 Congress Street, 1863. Inscribed "Mr. W. P. Upham with the kind regards of Edward Everett." This edition not noted in Howes or Sabin.](https://www.christies.com.cn/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01534_0251_000(102120).jpg?w=1)
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[CIVIL WAR]. Everett, Edward (1794-1865). Address delivered at the Consecration of The Soldier's Cemetery at Gettysburg, on the Nineteenth of November 1863. Boston: J. E. Farewell and Co., Printers, No. 37 Congress Street, 1863. Inscribed "Mr. W. P. Upham with the kind regards of Edward Everett." This edition not noted in Howes or Sabin.
8vo, paper wrappers, with a fold-out map tipped onto the front end-paper, spine reinforced, slight soiling along edges. In a half-morocco slipcase.
THE PRELUDE TO THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. For years Everett and his oration were merely the butt of jokes: the old Bostonian's starchy two-hour speech promptly forgotten, while Lincoln's 272 words instantly became a masterpiece of oratory. Everett himself seemed to collude in his neglect with his gracious comment to Lincoln after the ceremony: "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." But his audience enjoyed hearing him speak at length that day. He had given fabled addresses at the 50th anniversary of Lexington & Concord, and the 75th of Bunker Hill memorial. Here he says: "We owe it to the brave men who sleep in their beds of honor before us, and to their gallant surviving associates, not merely that your fertile fields, my friends of Pennsylvania and Maryland, were redeemed from the presence of the invader, but that your capitals were not given up to threatened plunder, perhaps laid in ashes, Washington seized by the enemy, and a blow struck at the heart of the nation." Sotheby's New York, Oct 31, 1989, lot 12, $2,750.
8vo, paper wrappers, with a fold-out map tipped onto the front end-paper, spine reinforced, slight soiling along edges. In a half-morocco slipcase.
THE PRELUDE TO THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. For years Everett and his oration were merely the butt of jokes: the old Bostonian's starchy two-hour speech promptly forgotten, while Lincoln's 272 words instantly became a masterpiece of oratory. Everett himself seemed to collude in his neglect with his gracious comment to Lincoln after the ceremony: "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." But his audience enjoyed hearing him speak at length that day. He had given fabled addresses at the 50th anniversary of Lexington & Concord, and the 75th of Bunker Hill memorial. Here he says: "We owe it to the brave men who sleep in their beds of honor before us, and to their gallant surviving associates, not merely that your fertile fields, my friends of Pennsylvania and Maryland, were redeemed from the presence of the invader, but that your capitals were not given up to threatened plunder, perhaps laid in ashes, Washington seized by the enemy, and a blow struck at the heart of the nation." Sotheby's New York, Oct 31, 1989, lot 12, $2,750.