Poetry by Walt Whitman, book design by Lawrence Jay Switzer. Large format 12" x 12', illustrated, printed on heavyweight artists' stock. This volume of the Walt Whitman Series pays tribute to the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. All four of the Lincoln poems penned by Walt Whitman are present, along with his recollections of the President and the transcript of his famous Lincoln Lecture, which he delivered on the anniversaries of the assassination. The book also contains several of Lincoln’s important speeches and proclamations, a life timeline, and a group of family portraits. A further section of the book includes period art in which the artists and photographers of the time struggle to capture a sense of the horror and grief experienced nationwide when the president was murdered. A tribute by Robert Green Ingersoll, who was considered America’s greatest orator during the 19th Century, concludes this album of poems and keepsakes of the glorious 16th Presidentiad.