The Trial of the Assassins and Conspirators at Washington City, D.C., May and June, 1865, for The Murder of President Abraham Lincoln

with illustrative engravings 

First edition.  Philadelphia:  T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1865 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Embossed brown cloth covers have blind tooled borders and medallion.  
• Boards show some bumping, sunning at edges, edgewear.  Corners are bumped and frayed, with exposed board.  See photos. 
• Spine has gilt text effaced and is sunned with crushed, chipped ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure.  
• Pastedowns and feps of thin yellow paper have some creases, staining.  Owner's mark at front fep. 
• Illustrations are clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits scattered foxing, staining, some marks.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have a scratch at head edge, some marks. 
• PS2024.0704

210 pages. 5.75 x 9 inches

A very good copy of this important volume which contains the entirety of the proceedings of the trial following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.  As per the title page, it includes "a full and verbatim Report of the Testimony of all the Witnesses examined in the whole Trial."  Also, "a sketch of the Life of all the Conspirators, and Portraits and Illustrative Engravings of the principal persons and scenes relating to the foul murder and the trial."

Published in Philadelphia by T.B. Peterson & Brothers, the contents were "Prepared on the spot by the Special Correspondents and Reporters of the Philadelphia Daily Inquirer, expressly for this edition."

Inscribed "Howard W. Stepp" on front fep.  Howard W. Stepp, Princeton University Class of 1939 (d. 1989) was a long-time swimming coach at the university and actively involved in civic life in Princeton, NJ.

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