1907
by Lincoln, Charles Z.
1907. Lincoln, Charles Z[ebina]. The Fundamentals of American Government: Including the Great Documents on Which its Institutions are Founded and the Statutes Relating to Naturalization and Expatriation, with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes. Rochester: Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., 1907. xii, 232 pp. Original orange cloth with gilt stamped spine label. Light shelfwear and soiling. Ex-library with ink shelf location label to foot of spine. Property stamps to page edges. Bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason to front pastedown. Front hinge lightly cracked. Number stamp to verso title page, otherwise internally clean. $95. * "The chief purpose of the book is the presentation in convenient form of the four great documents which compose the foundation of our government, namely, Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States" (Preface, iii). Gleason [1869-1942] was a Catholic priest, historian and collector.
(Inventory #: 81958)