“THE PRESIDENT IS DEAD - ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIED THIS MORNING AT TWENTY-TWO MINUTES AFTER SEVEN O’CLOCK”

A complete and authentic issue of The World, New York, April 17, 1865, 8pp., disbound and untrimmed at the top, crisp, near fine. From the front page, column stacked headlines " OUR BEREAVEMENT, Full particulars of the Great National Tragedy, THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT, Minute Account of the Fatal Scene in the Theater, The Last Honors to the Lamented Dead, A NATION'S SORROW, Conflicting Rumors with regard to the Assassin, Inauguration of Mr. Johnson as President...." Just an amazing array of detailed accounts of the Lincoln assassination presented in a crisp nationally recognized newspaper.