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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
with progressively more narrow widths :] INCLUDING HIS CONNECTION WITH
THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT; HIS LABORS IN GREAT│BRITAIN AS
WELL AS IN HIS OWN COUNTRY; HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE CONDUCT
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
APPOINTMENT BY GEN. GRANT TO ACCOMPANY THE SANTO DOMINGO
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.│
1881.'.

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  17¹²  [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]₁ 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)

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
with progressively more narrow widths :] INCLUDING HIS CONNECTION WITH
THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT; HIS LABORS IN GREAT│BRITAIN AS
WELL AS IN HIS OWN COUNTRY; HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE CONDUCT
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
APPOINTMENT BY GEN. GRANT TO ACCOMPANY THE SANTO DOMINGO
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.│
1881.'.

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  17¹²  [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]₁ 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)