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554 DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Publication: Listed in Publisher's Weekly, 42 (December 10, 1892), 1052, at $2.50
in cloth binding only. Like numerous other volumes listed in this issue, its entry
describes it as an "1893 [1892]" publication.
Note: Mixed sheets: as in the second printing of the expanded edition, no page
number appears on p. [16] of the Rush Rhees Library's copy, and it does not list the
book's illustrations.
Locations: Binding A: McElrath Collection; New-York Historical Society. Binding
B: Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester. Rebound: Schomburg Center.
BX2. Expanded Second American Edition, Second Printing
Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1895
Same as the first printing except: title page, line 29, '1895.'; page number for p. [16]
is not present, nor is signature 24. The list of illustrations cites 18, including the
frontispiece portrait, rather than 11, and present are 17 plates; but 'Portrait of Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe' (photograph) replaces 'Portrait of John Brown'; 'Portrait of
William Lloyd Garrison' is no longer an engraving but a photograph; and "Abraham
Lincoln" (listed as 'Portrait of Abraham Lincoln' in the first printing of the expanded
second American edition) is derived from a photograph rather than an engraving.
White wove paper, .004" thick, sheets bulk 1 3/8".
Locations: Binding A: New-York Historical Society. Binding B: McElrath
Collection.
BX3. Expanded Second American Edition, Third Printing
Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., n.d.
Same as the second printing, binding A, except for: title page, 28 lines, no publication
year below line 28. The title leaf is integral, and inferred is a late 1895 or post-1895
printing.
Locations: Washington State Library. Rebound: Schomburg Center; University of
Wisconsin; Davis Library, UNC, Chapel Hill.
E1. First English Edition, First Printing
London: Christian Age Office, 1882
Title Page: 20 lines, 'THE│LIFE AND TIMES│OF│FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
│FROM 1817 TO 1882,│WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.│(gothic:) Illustrated.│WITH
AN INTRODUCTION BY│THE RIGHT HON. JOHN BRIGHT, M. P.│EDITED
BY│JOHN LOBB, F. R. G. S.,│OF THE "CHRISTIAN AGE,"│EDITOR OF
"UNCLE TOM'S STORY OF HIS LIFE," & C.│[single rule, diamond at center]│
[gothic:] London:│CHRISTIAN AGE OFFICE, ST. BRIDE STREET,│LUDGATE
CIRCUS, E. C.│[single rule]│1882│[within square brackets:] Authorised Edition,
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