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DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                                                     557

Binding: Red, reddish brown, yellowish green, or purplish blue calico, black-, gold-,
and blind-stamped. Front: Top to bottom within a black-stamped single rule box,
six gold- and black-stamped lines inside a black-stamped bamboo frame: four lines
gold-stamped. 'LIFE AND TIMES│[ornamental single rule]│OF│[superscript 'K' above
two periods:] FRED^K DOUGLASS'; two lines black-stamped, 'FROM│1817 TO 1882'.
At lower right beneath a black-stamped coastal scene, four black-stamped lines,
'ILLUSTRATED│[single rule]│[geometrical figures with dots at centers]│[single
rule]; beneath the four lines, two gold-stamped lines, 'Edited by│John Lobb.'. At
the left of the six lines, within a black-stamped double-rule frame a black-stamped
cemetery scene; gold-stamped, Douglass and others at the Lloyd grave. Back:
blind-stamped, a flower surrounded by hearts within a circle. Spine: 17 black- and
gold-stamped lines, '[black-stamped, single rule]│[black-stamped, two bamboo
stalks crossing another bamboo stalk]│[five gold-stamped lines:] LIFE│AND│
TIMES OF│FRED' DOUGLASS│[four black-stamped lines:] FROM│1817 TO 1882│
ILLUSTRATED│[tropical village scene]│[three lines gold-stamped:] Edited│by│
John Lobb.│[black-stamped, double rule ]│[gold-stamped:] CHRISTIAN AGE OFFICE
[black-stamped, double rule]'. Edges trimmed 8  1/16" X 5  1/4" and gilded at top
of ungilded. White wove end papers at front and back stained dark gray or reddish
brown on verso of first leaf and recto of second.

Printing: Bemrose and Sons, Printers, 23, Old Bailey, London, and Derby.

Publication: In a 15 March 1882 letter to Douglass (Douglass Papers, Library of
Congress), editor and publisher John Lobb informed him that he is sending the same
day a copy of the volume. Available for sale in England in April 1882 (English
Catalogue of Books for 1882). The deposit copy at the British Library is dated 5
September 1882.

Locations: British Library (rebound but gathering characteristics intact), purplish
blue cloth, original front cover cloth tipped-in, dark gray endpapers; McElrath
(reddish brown cloth, dark gray endpapers); Vere Harmsworth Library, University
of Oxford (yellowish green cloth, reddish brown endpapers); National Library
of Scotland, no deposit dating (purplish blue cloth, dark gray endpapers); Green
Library, Stanford University (red cloth, dark gray endpapers); Schomburg Center
and New York Public Library (both rebound).

Note 1: Mixed sheets: The zero page number 450 is not present in the Schomburg
Center copy.

Note 2: The English edition was typeset from the first printing of the first American
edition.

E2. First English Edition, Second Printing
         London: Christian Age Office, 1883

Same as the first printing except: title page, 22 lines, lines 14-16: '[single rule]│