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552                                                                                     DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

         Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Co., et al., 1883

Same as the second printing, first issue, bindings A and B, except for the title page,
31 lines instead of 30: lines 28-31: ' HAMILTON REWELL & CO., CLEVELAND, O.;
WALKER & DAIGNEAU, BATTLE│CREEK, MICH.; W. E. BLISS, DES MOINES, IOWA;
J. S. GOODMAN & CO.,│CHICAGO, ILL.; PHILLIPS & HUNT, SAN FRANCISCO,
CAL.│1883.'. Frontispiece portrait leaf no longer counts as pp. [1-2], and the
mispagination through p. 17 has been corrected: [1-2]: blank; [3]: title page; [4]
copyright page; [5] 6-15: 'CONTENTS'; [16]: 'ILLUSTRATIONS'; 17: first page
of 'INTRODUCTION'. White wove paper .005+ thick, sheets bulk 1  19/32".

Locations: Binding A: Butler Library, Columbia University; Charles L. Blockson
Collection, Temple University; Miami University Library. Binding B: Brooklyn
Historical Society Library; Olin Library, Rollins College.

B3b. Second American Edition, Third Printing, Second Issue
         Cleveland, O.: Hamilton, Rewell & Co., 1883

Same as the first issue, binding B, except the title leaf is a cancel. Title page is newly
typeset, and its text is the same as that of the first printing of the first American
edition (29 lines and lines 9-22 are arranged in two sections of progressively more
narrow widths) except for: line 1, ' LIFE AND TIMES' is in bold face; line 3, no
comma following 'DOUGLASS'; lines 18-19, "APPOINT- MENT'; and lines
27-29: 'CLEVELAND, O.;│HAMILTON, REWELL & CO. I883.' (No reference
to Park Publishing Co.) Copyright page: two lines, 'COPYRIGHT, ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED.'. Edges trimmed and gilded, 7  13/16" X 5  1/16".

Locations: Frederick Douglass Papers Office.

B4. Second American Edition, Fourth Printing
         Cleveland, O.: Park Publishing Co., et al., 1884

Same as the third printing, first issue, binding B, except for the title page, 30
lines instead of 31, lines 28-30: 'HAMILTON REWELL & CO., CLEVELAND, O.:
WALKER & DAIGNEAU, BATTLE│CREEK,. MICH.; PHILLIPS & HUNT, SAN
FRANCISCO, CAL.│1884.'. The title leaf is integral. The mispagination in the first
gatherings of the first and second printings (corrected in the third printing) is present
again: [1-5] 6-15 [16] [16a-16b] 17-24, the recto of the frontispiece leaf counting
as the first page and the illustrations list appearing on [16a].

Locations: Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi (edges gilded); SUNY College at
Geneseo and Cooper Union (edges not gilded).

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BX1. Expanded Second American Edition, First Printing
         Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1893

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