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DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 543

A1. First American Edition, First Printing
Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing, 1881

Title page: 29 lines. 'LIFE AND TIMES	OF	FREDERICK DOUGLASS, WRITTEN
BY HIMSELF.	HIS EARLY LIFE AS A SLAVE, HIS ESCAPE FROM BONDAGE,
AND HIS COMPLETE HISTORY	TO THE	PRESENT TIME	[seven lines

THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT: HIS LABORS IN GREAT	BRITAIN AS

OF AN INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPER: HIS CONNECTION WITH THE

UNDERGROUND	RAILROAD: HIS RELATIONS WITH JOHN BROWN AND
THE HARPER'S	FERRY RAID: HIS RECRUITING THE 54th AND 55th MASS.
COLORED REGIMENTS: HIS INTERVIEWS WITH	PRESIDENTS LINCOLN
AND JOHNSON:	[seven lines with progressively more narrow widths:] HIS

COMMISSION: ALSO	TO A SEAT IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA: HIS APPOINTMENT AS	UNITED STATES MARSHAL BY
PRESIDENT R. B. HAYES : ALSO HIS APPOINTMENT	BY PRESIDENT J.
A. GARFIELD TO BE RECORDER OF DEEDS IN	WASHINGTON; WITH
MANY OTHER INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT EVENTS OF HIS MOST
EVENTFUL LIFE: WITH AN INTRODUCTION.	BY MR. GEORGE L. RUFFIN,
OF BOSTON. [single rule] HARTFORD. CONN.:	PARK PUBLISHING CO.

Copyright page: 3 lines. 'COPYRIGHTED BY PARK PUBLISHING Co..	1881.'.

Pagination: [i iii] iv xii [no pages numbered xiii-xiv] xv-xxiii [xxiv] [no pages
numbered 1 12] 13 516 [517 18].

Collation: [1]12 2 17 12 [18 22]12. Signed on rectos of first leaves and (with asterisk
at right of signature number) on rectos of fifth leaves. Not integral are the 18 leaves
on which appear the frontispiece portrait leaf facing the title page ([l], r) and the 17
illustrations tipped-in between these pages:
22 23: The Last Time He Saw His Mother
50 51: Whipping of Old Barney
56 57: Gore Shooting Denby
70 71: Mrs. Auld Teaching Him to Read
132 33: Found in the Woods by Sandy
168 69: Driven to Jail for Running Away
196 97: His Present Home in Washington
206 07: At the Wharf in Newport
234 35: Fighting the Mob in Indiana
276 77: Portrait of John Brown
336 37: Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison
386 87 : Portrait of Wendell Phillips (no caption, signature at foot)