Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois and Hon. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.
The above listed campaign biographies, all of them, except the Wigwam Edition, based directly or indirectly upon the information furnished first to Scripps, and then to other biographers, are all of remarkable interest as showing what was then available to make a biography out of, and what various biographers, under stress of the campaign and the enterprise of publishers, were able to make out of it.
A list might be added of the 1864 campaign biographies, but for the present purpose they are unimportant, as also are the first that followed his death.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln. By J. G. Holland. Springfield, Mass., published by Gurdon Bill, 1865. By far the best life of Lincoln published in the first few years after his death, and noted as containing the Bateman interview, which gave rise to the controversy concerning Lincoln's religion.
Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Together With State Papers. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and reminiscences of Frank B. Carpenter. New York: Derby & Miller, 1865. At the time of publication this was the best life of Lincoln in its assembling of State Papers and important documents.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln from His Birth to His Inauguration As President. By Ward H. Lamon. Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1872. First attempt to give to the world the story of the "real" Lincoln and a conspicuous example of the fate a man may suffer at the hands of his friends. Invaluable in its material, but with shocking bad taste; and said by Herndon to have been written by Chauncey F. Black.
Brings the narrative down to the time of Lincoln's inauguration and was intended to have been followed by a second volume, but was received with such disfavor that the concluding volume was never issued.
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865. By Ward Hill Lamon. Edited by Dorothy Lamon. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1895. Second Edition of the Same, with Memoir of Ward Hill Lamon by his daughter, Dorothy Lamon Teillard. Washington, D. C. Published by the editor, 1911.
Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Etiam in minimis major. The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln. By William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and law partner; and Jesse William Weik, A.M. Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co., publishers. London: Henry J. Drane, Lovells Court, Paternoster Road. 3 volumes. 1889. Unexpurgated first edition.
Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. By William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, with an introduction by Horace White. In two volumes. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1892.