8vo (231 x 155 mm). (Some spotting and dampstaining.) Publisher's brown cloth (rebacked). Provenance: Susan A. Ellis (gift inscription from Mary Harmony Alfred Moulton, wife of Judge Moulton). 

FIRST EDITION, later issue, with "2" on p.13 (rather than p.17).  The first published edition of the debates between Lincoln and Douglas, conducted during their campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1858. Follett, Foster, and Co. would later publish Lincoln's campaign biography. Howes L-338; Sabin 41156.