85 volumes. Etched throughout by Bernhardt Wall, with some 960 etchings printed in colored inks on heavy wove paper (including covers and etcher's slips), nearly all of the full-page plates signed in pencil by Wall. 25x22.5 cm (10x9"), each volume hand-bound by Wall in gray boards backed with cloth, dust wrappers with hand-inked spine labels. No. 45 of 100 sets, signed and numbered by Wall in ink on the limitation page in each volume.
Superb set of Bernhardt Wall's magnus opus, created over a span of twelve years, with original etchings which chronologically follow Lincoln's life and depict his boyhood homes and places of interest throughout his career. This copy with the bookplate of the Lincoln Library of Stanley H. Byram on the front pastedown of each volume, and on the back of each title page is the pencil notation, likely in Byram's hand, "Stanley H. Byram, 11 Ap 83, gift."
Francis J. Weber, in Following Bernhardt Wall, remarks, "This series, which follows Lincoln from his English ancestry to his tomb in Springfield, Illinois, was begun on May 21, 1931, and ended with October 2nd, 1942. Originally, Mr. Wall envisioned a series of only fifteen volumes, but `after getting into stride, I found that my hero had done considerable traveling... so the volumes grew and piled up.' In 1940, the etcher felt that the series would stop at Volume 60, so he dedicated the next volume to an index. Then [he] began what he described as a `supplemental series' to present overlooked `Lincoln contacts' together with `places in the Old World' associated with Lincoln. Finally, the series was concluded with Volume 85, which included a second, updated index by Harry E. Pratt".