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Note: The copy of the salesman's dummy at the Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, includes the same 1882 title page. At its back in the salesperson's hand are listed the types of bindings requested by those who have placed orders. They are cloth or leather with trimmed edges that are gilded, 'sprinkled' or plain.
B2a. Second American Edition, Second Printing, First Issue Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Company, et al., 1882.
The same as the first printing, binding B, except for the title page, line 3, 'DOUGLASS' (no comma after 'DOUGLASS'); signed only on the first leaf in gathering 13. White wove paper varies in thickness from .004+" to .005 +", sheets bulk 1 1/2". Mispagination of pp. [1] through 17 is uncorrected. The title leaf is integral.
Locations: Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester; Green Library, Stanford University. Rebound; Green Library, Stanford University; Schomburg Center.
B2b. Second American Edition, Second Printing, Second Issue Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Company, et al., 1884
Same as the first issue except for the title page, lines 28-30: 'HAMILTON REWELL & CO., CLEVELAND, O., WALKER & DAIGNEAU, BATTLE│CREEK, MICH.; PHILLIPS & HUNT. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.│1884.'. The title leaf is a cancel and identical to the integral title leaf in the fourth printing.
Location: Schomburg Center (rebound).
B2c. Second American Edition, Second Printing, Third Issue Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Company, 1888
Same as the second issue except for title page, 28 lines instead of 30, lines 26-28; 'HARTFORD. CONN.; PARK PUBLISHING CO.│1888.'. The title leaf is a cancel.
Binding B: Olive brown calico blind-, black-, and gold-stamped. Front: blackstamped except as noted, a floral figure within each corner of a double-rule box; four lines at center, ' LIFE AND TIMES│OF ['F' within 'O']│[gold-stamped female and eagle figures]│FREDERICK DOUGLASS'. Back: blank-stamped doublerule box with floral figures inside the upper and lower right corners, at center the same female and eagle figures as on the front. Spine: 11 gold-stamped lines, '[single row of crosses and stars] : LIFE│AND│TIMES│OF│FRED'K DOUGLASS [single rule dotted at both ends]│ILLUSTRATED│PPC [letters intertwined]│ [single row of crosses and stars]'. Edges trimmed. 7 27/32" X 5". White wove end papers at front and back.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia.
B3a. Second American Edition, Third Printing, First Issue
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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).
* * * BX1. Expanded Second American Edition, First Printing Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1893
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Same as the second American edition, second printing, first issue, except title page, 29 lines, no single rule below line 24; lines 25-29, [gothic:] New Revised Edition.│ BOSTON:│DE WOLFE, FISKE & CO.│361 AND 365 WASHINGTON STREET.│1893.'. Copyright page, two lines, 'COPYRIGHT, 1892,│BY DE WOLFE, FISKE & CO.'. Frontispiece portrait is derived from photograph rather than the engraving that appeared in the previous American publications.
Pagination: [1-3] 4-36 [37-38] 39-70 [71-72] 73-78 [79-80] 81-94 [95-96] 97-166 [167-68) 169-208 [209-10] 211-42 [243-44] 245-84 [285-86] 287-334 [335-36] 337-402 [403-04] 405-60 [461-62] 463-96 [497-98] 499-502 [503-04] 505-20 [521-22] 523-44 [545-46] 547-98 [599-600] 601-18 [619] 620-752. With the exception of [1-3] and [619], the inferred page numbers are those of the tippedin leaves on which the illustrations appear. As in the third printing, first issue, of the second American edition, the frontispiece portrait, also tipped in, is not included in the page count; and, as in previous printings of the second American edition, neither is the plate inserted between pp. 254 and 255. As in the third printing, first issue, of the second American edition, there no mispagination between pp. 16 and 17. See Note.
Collation: [1-47]8; signed as in the second American edition, first printing, except: signature 6 is not present; there is no second signature 13; and none follows signature 25 (p. 609) since none of the "Part III" gatherings is signed.
Contents: The table of contents, pp. [3]-15, is expanded to include the 'THIRD PART', the text of which appears on pp. 619-752. The list of illustrations (including the frontispiece in its count) cites 11 rather than the 18 in previous printings of the first and second American editions. Present, excluding the frontispiece, are 14 plates. In addition to those listed, tipped-in are: 'Whipping of Old Barney', 'Gore Shooting Denby', 'Mrs. Auld Teaching Him to Read', 'Found in the Woods by Sandy', 'Driven to Jail for Running Away', 'At the Wharf in Newport', and 'Fighting the Mob in Indiana'. Listed but not present are: 'Portrait of John Brown', 'Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison', and 'Portrait of Abraham Lincoln'. See Note.
Typography and Paper: Typepage width varies from that of previous pages on pp. 619-752, 3 1/2" rather than 3 9/16". Running heads in 'THIRD PART' appear on the first pages of chapters as well as the remaining pages. White wove paper .003"+ thick, sheets bulk 1 1/4".
Binding A: Dark blue calico. Front and back: blank. Spine: nine lines gold-stamped, 'LIFE AND TIMES│OF│FREDERICK│DOUGLASS│[triangle]│ILLUSTRATED BOSTON│DE WOLFE FISKE│[bullet] & CO [bullet]'. Edges trimmed and top edges gilded. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4", striped head-bands at top and bottom. White wove end papers.
Binding B: Same as binding A but dark red calico.
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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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and Copyright.'.
Copyright page: blank.
Pagination: [i-v] vi [vii] viii-xv [xvi] [1] 2-3 [4] 5-7 [8] 9-10 [11] 12-18 [19] 2023 [24] 25-30 [31] 32-37 [38] 39-42 [43] 44-48 [49] 50-53 [54] 55-60 [61] 62-67 [68] 69-75 [76] 77-86 [87] 88-98 [99] 100-105 [106] 107-16 [117] 118-25 [126] 127-46 [147] 148-57 [158] 159-64 [165] 166-69 [170] 171-82 [183] 184-87 [188] 189-93 [194] 195-99 [200] 201-24 [225] 226-235 [236] 237-53 [254] 255-73 [274] 275-90 [291] 292-305 [306] 307-26 [327] 328-49 [350] 351-57 [358] 35968 [369] 370-96 [397] 398-409 [410] 411-21 [422] 423-25 [426] 427-28 [429] 430-31 [432] 433-44 [445] 446-50 [451] 452-54 [455-56]. Leaves for frontispiece portrait and 12 plates are not included in the pagination. See Note 1.
Collation: [A] B-I K-U X-Z AA-FF8 GG4. Signed on rectos of first and second leaves in B-FF (e.g., 'B'· and 'B2', but gathering C is anomalous: its second leaf is signed '2C'). Gathering GG is signed on the first leaf only. The leaves for the frontispiece portrait and 12 plates are not integral. They are tipped-in between these pages: [ii-iii]: Frontispiece portrait (engraving is different from that of the first American edition) 34-35: Whipping of Old Barney 40-41: Murder of Poor Denby 164-65: His Present Home at Washington 182-83: William Lloyd Garrison 208-209: Thomas Clarkson (not in the first American edition) 236-37: John Brown 252-53: Mrs. H. B. Stowe (not in the first American edition) 266-67: Harper's Ferry (not in the first American edition) 368-69 : Abraham Lincoln (engraving different from that of the first American Edition) 386-87: Marshal Douglass at the Inauguration of President Garfield 404-405: Visit to Colonel Lloyd's Grave 426-27: President Garfield (not in the first American edition) See the description of A1 for the plates therein omitted from the English edition.
Contents: [i]; half-title page, 4 lines. 'THE LIFE AND TIMES│OF│FREDERICK DOUGLASS.'; [ii]: blank; [iii]: title page; [iv]: blank; [v]-vi: 'INTRODUCTORY NOTE' by Rt. Hon. John Bright, M.P.; [vii] viii-xv: 'CONTENTS.'; [xvi]: ILLUSTRATIONS.', frontispiece portrait and 12 plates listed; [1]-444: text of Life and Times derived from the first American edition, with the last section, 'APPENDIX.', retitled 'APPENDIX A.'; [445]-450: 'APPENDIX B.', George L. Rutlin's introduction (unabbreviated as in the first printing of the first American edition); [451]-54: 'APPENDIX C.', commentary by the Rev. David Thomas. D. D.; 454, lines 24-25: printer's imprint, '[single rule]│BEMROSE and SONS, Printers.