HARPER'S WEEKLY: A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION, March 18, 1865. Complete Issue, Including the Full Text of Lincoln's Highly Acclaimed Second Inaugural Address and Two Large Original Wood Engravings Picturing the Inauguration.

New York: Harper's Weekly, 1865. 16 pages. Large folio (16 inches by 11 1/4 inches). Harper's Weekly was the most important American pictorial newspaper in the 19th century. Because the original wood engravings in virtually every issue are highly collectible, complete issues are becoming more difficult to obtain. The issue offered here focuses on Lincoln's inauguration following his 1864 reelection. It includes the complete text of his famous "with malice toward none" speech and an editorial lauding the speech. The front page includes a full-page wood engraving after a photograph by Alexander Gardner, with the caption "President Lincoln Taking the Oath at His Second Inauguration, March 4, 1865." The centerfold is a double-page wood engraving (also after a Gardner photo) entitled "President Lincoln's Reinauguration at the Capitol." In addition to those picturing the inauguration, there are many other engravings, including, most notably, a full-page engraving depicting African-American soldiers, with the caption, "Marching On! The Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Colored Regiment singing John Brown's March in the Streets of Charleston." This issue of Harper's Weekly is disbound from a bound volume and has the usual sewing holes along the binding edge, but it is still in very good condition: clean and bright, with minimal toning of the paper.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Magazine.