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23, Old Bailey, London; and Derby'; [455-56]: advertisements.

Typography and Paper: 6  1/2" (6  9/32") X 3  13/16" (p. 284). 39 lines per page. Running heads: vi: 'INTRODUCTORY NOTE.': viii-xv: recto and verso, 'CONTENTS.'; 2-444: running heads are unique to and gloss each page of the chapters, but no running heads on the first pages; 446-50, 452-54: 'APPENDIX.' is the uniform running head. White wove paper .005" thick, sheets bulk 1  3/16".

Text: xv. 19: wavy single rule with diamond at center.          [xvi].2: single rule with diamond at center.          323.3-4: had resisted│the anti-slavery current of his State, had sided largely          323.6: friends,          323.8-38: [New paragraph:] During the war he was too good to be a rebel sympathizer,│and not quite good enough to become as Wilson was—a power in │the Union cause. Wilson had risen to eminence by his devotion to liberal ideas, while Winthrop had sunken almost to obscurity from│his indifference to such ideas. But now either himself or his I friends, most likely the latter, thought that the time had come│when some word implying interest in the loyal cause should fall from his lips. It was not so much the need of the Union, as the need of himself, that he should speak; the time when the Union│needed him, and all others, was when the slaveholding rebellion│raised its defiant head, not when as now, that head was in the dust│and ashes of defeat and destruction. But the beloved Winthrop, the proud representative of what Daniel Webster once called the "solid men of Boston," had great need to speak now. It had been│no fault of the loyal cause that he had not spoken sooner. Its│"gates, like those of Heaven, stood open night and day." lf he did │not come in, it was his own fault. Regiment after regiment, brigade after brigade, had passed over Boston Common to endure the perils and hardships of war; Governor Andrew had poured out his soul,│and exhausted his wonderful powers of speech in patriotic words│to the brave departing sons or old Massachusetts, and a word│from Winthrop would have gone far to nerve up those young soldiers going forth to lay down their lives for the life of the Republic; but no word came. Yet now in the last quarter of the eleventh hour, when the day's work was nearly done, Robert C. Winthrop was│seen standing upon the same platform with the veteran Henry│Wilson. He was there in all his native grace and dignity, elegantly and aristocratically clothed, his whole bearing marking his social sphere as widely different from many present. Happily for his good name, and for those who shall bear it when he is no longer│among the living, he was found even at the last hour, in          324.5: when          324.8: now          324.12: effected          357:57 ['3' in the page number is not present.]          360: ['3' in the page number is raised.]          450.0: [zero in page number is present] See Note 2.          [455].4: [boldface:] his

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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]│

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SECOND EDITION│[single rule]' and line 21: '1883.'; signature Y2 (p. 323) is not present.

Text: xv: [18 lines rather than 19, wavy single rule with diamond at center in first printing (line 19) is not present.]           [xvi].2: [Wavy single rule with diamond at center.]           323.3-4: had│had sided largely           323.5 [323.6 in first printing:] friends           323.7-38 [323.8-38 in the first printing:] ¶When the war broke out he was found to be too good to be│a rebel sympathizer, and he became as Wilson also did—a power│in the Union cause. I regret that I had imagined him capable of taking sides, or seeming to do so with the enemies of the Republic│in the hour of its peril. For, when the Union needed him, and│all others, as the slaveholding rebellion was raising its defiant│head,—as when that head was in the dust and ashes of defeat,—│the beloved Winthrop. the proud representative of what Daniel Webster once called the "solid men of Boston," showed that he│was not prepared to sacrifice his patriotism to party. He made│the loyal cause his own. Its "gates, like those of Heaven, stood│open night and day," and he showed no reluctance to enter in. Regiment after regiment, brigade after brigade, passed over Boston Common to endure the perils and hardships of│war; Governor Andrew poured out his soul, and exhausted│his wonderful powers of speech in patriotic words to the brave departing sons of old Massachusetts, and, as was fit-│ting. burning words of loyal devotion fell from the lips of Win-│throp also. and did their part in nerving those young soldiers going│forth to lay down their lives for the life of the Republic. In large│public meetings his voice was eloquently raised in the advocacy of the cause of the Union, and he did much to rally his countrymen around the Government when every effort was needed to crush the│slaveholders' rebellion. And now, in the last quarter of the│eleventh hour, when the day's work was nearly done, faithful to the│end, Robert C. Winthrop was seen standing upon the same plat- form with the veteran Henry Wilson. He was there in all his│native grace and dignity, elegantly and aristocratically clothed, his│whole bearing marking his social sphere as widely different from│that of many present. It will hereafter be remembered with pride by those who bear his honoured name when he is no longer among the living, that he was found on the right side, and in           450.0: 45 [zero is present] [See Note.]           [455].4: [Boldface:] His [See Note.]

Binding: Red cloth, dark gray endpapers.

Publication: The Grosvenor Library plate in the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library copy is dated by hand 'Dec. 1, 1882'. Advertisement of the 'Second Edition' in "Book Notices," Christian Age, 23 (9 May 1883), 304.

Location: National Library of Scotland, no deposit dating; Grosvenor Rare Book Collection, Buffalo and Erie County Central Library.

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Note: Mixed sheets: In the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library copy, the zero in '450 ' is not present and the boldface 'his' of the first printing is present.

E3. First English Edition, Third Printing           London: Christian Age Office, 1884

Same as the second printing, except for: title page, 22 lines, lines 14-16, '[single rule]│THIRD EDITION.│[single rule]', and line 21, '1884.'

Binding: Same as the first printing. yellowish green and purplish blue calico, with either dark gray or reddish brown stained end papers. Edges trimmed 8  1/32" X 5  1/4" (British Library copy), 8  1/32" X 5  7/32" (Bodleian copy); 8" X 5  1/4" (FDP copy).

Publication: 4 May 1885 deposit date, British Library copy; 24 September 1885 deposit date, Bodleian Library copy.

Locations: Frederick Douglass Papers Editorial Office, yellowish green cloth, dark gray end papers; British Library, yellowish green cloth, reddish brown end papers; Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, purplish blue cloth, reddish brown end papers.

Note: Mixed sheets: page number 450 is not present in the Bodleian Library copy; and, as at xv. 19 in the first printing, a wavy rule with diamond at center is present in the British Library copy.

E4. First English Edition, Fourth Printing London: Christian Age Office, 1887

Same as the third printing, including lines 13-16 on title page. '[single rule]│THIRD EDITION. [single rule]'. Line 21 differs, reading ' 1887'. The title page is a cancel.

Text: 323.3 4: had sided           323.10: so,           324.5: when.           324.8: now,           324.12: affected

Binding: Bluish gray cloth, edges ungilded.

Locations: Tamiment Collection, Bobst Library, New York University; Sarah Lawrence College.