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544                                                                                              DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

       416-17: Charles Sumner (no caption, signature at foot)
       420-21: Commissioners to Santo Domingo
       434-35: Marshall at the Inauguration of Pres. Garfield
       454-55: Revisits His Old Home
       502-03: Abraham Lincoln (no caption, signature at foot)

Contents:  [i]: title page; [ii]: copyright page; [iii] iv-xii: introduction by George L.
Ruffin; xv-xxiii: table of contents; [xxiv]: blank; 13-516: text; [517-18]: blank.

Typography and Paper:  6  l/2" (6  3/16") X 3  25/32" (p. 299). 36 lines per page (but 35
lines on p. 225). Running heads: uniform, recto and verso, for 'INTRODUCTION.'
and 'CONTENTS.', except on their first pages; thereafter, except on the first pages
of chapters, the running head of each recto and verso is unique and glosses the text.
White wove paper, .005" thick. sheets bulk 1  1/4".

Text:  xi.4-8: shelter; and as to riding in public conveyances, mean spirited
conductors at one time made it a rule to put all col-│ored people, nolens volens,
in the smoking car. Many times│was Douglass subjected to this indignity.  [New
paragraph:] The
       xi.26-29: platform. Free speech was violated; Boston was disgraced; but the
Chairman of that meeting was not intimi-│dated . [New paragraph:] It
xii.6: Boston. Sept. 1st, 1881.
       xxii.28-29 [Table of contents, 'SECOND PART', no summary for Chapter XV]:
CHAPTER XV.│"Weighed in the balance."
       xxiii.17 [Table of contents, 'SECOND PART', summary for chapter XVIII:]
Other Friends—Woman Suffrage—Concluding Thoughts.
       xxiii.18 [Table of contents, ' SECOND PART':] CHAPTER XIX. [No chapter
title nor a chapter summary.]
       xxiii.19 [Table of contents, 'SECOND PART', last line on page:] APPENDIX.
       336.13: disproval
       415.2: "WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE." [No chapter summary follows.]
       459.1: XVI. [Chapter XVII in 'SECOND PART' is misnumbered 'XVI.'.]
       516.17: [Last line of text :] chance in the race of life.

Binding A: Dark red calico. Front and back blindstamped, a double-rule rectangle
box with three lines within: three floral figures at top, female and eagle figures
at center, and three floral figures at bottom. Spine: nine lines gold-stamped.
'[horizontal row of dotted crosses]│LIFE│AND│TIMES OF FRED'K DOUGLASS
[single rule dotted at ends]│ILLUSTRATED│[horizontal row of dotted crosses]'.
Striped headbands at top and bottom. Edges trimmed 7  29/32" X 5 1/16". White
wove endpapers.

Binding B: Same as Binding A except female and eagle figures on front are gold-
stamped; trimmed edges are gilded.

Publication: Copyright registration (title and description) on 3 September 1881

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