Descriptive Bibliography
A Descriptive Bibliography
A Descriptive Bibliography
The search for indications of how Frederick Douglass intended his autobiography to read has meant the location and analysis of information sources such as his and others' manuscript remains and their correspondence. It was as important to establish for the first time the bibliographical history of Life and Times insofar as the production of different typesettings during Douglass's lifetime and the textual alterations occurring between their respective printings could prove revelatory of intentions. In the case of Life, the bibliographical sources of textually significant information are four series of printings in which its author had opportunities to affect the way his work would read: the two American typesettings, or editions, that the Park Publishing Company created in 1881 and the following year; the single English edition that the Christian Age Office derived from the first American edition's first printing in 1882; and the expanded version of the second American edition for which DeWolfe, Fiske and Company originated the plates for the "Third Part" of Life in 1892. Documented here are the four sequences to which the "Textual Afterword" refers.
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)
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
and deposit on 23 November 1881. Available for sale in England in March 1882 (English Catalogue of Books for 1882).
Locations: Binding A: Frederick Douglass Papers Editorial Office; National Library of Scotland; and Green Library, Stanford University (signed by Alexander H. Stephens, dated March 11, 1882). Binding B: Schomburg Center (inscribed by Douglass, 'To my Dear Daughter│Rosetta│Xmas│1881'); Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester. Rebound: Butler Library, Columbia University; Schomburg Center (2 copies).
A2. First American Edition, Second Printing
Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Co., et al., 1882
Same as the first printing, binding A, except for:
Title page: 31 lines, no single rule below 'OF BOSTON.' (line 25), lines 26-31: 'HARTFORD, CONN.:│PARK PUBLISHING CO.│GEO. M. REWELL & CO., Cleveland, Ohio; J. S. GOODMAN & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.;│SUN PUBLISHING CO., ST. LOUIS. MO.; PHILLIPS & HUNT,│SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.│1882.'.
Pagination: [i-iii] iv-xx [xxi-xxii] 13-518.
Contents: [i] title page; [ii]: copyright page; [iii] iv-xi: introduction by Ruffin; xii-xx: table of contents; [xxi]: list of illustrations (frontispiece portrait and 17 plates); [xxii]: blank; 13-518: text.
Text: xi.4-5: shelter. [New paragraph:] The [See Note.]
xi.23-24: platform. [New paragraph:] It [See Note.]
xi.36: [No date below:] GEORGE L. RUFFIN. [See Note.]
xix.29-33: [Table of contents. 'SECOND PART', title of Chapter XV:]
WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE. [Chapter summary:] The Santo Domingo controversy—Decoration Day at Arlington, 1871—│Speech delivered there—National colored convention at New Orleans,│1872—Elector at large for the State of New York—Death of Hon.│Henry Wilson.
xix.34: [Table of contents. 'SECOND PART': 'CHAPTER XVI.' in first printing here reads 'CHAPTER X' due to type-wear.]
xx.17: [Table of contents, 'SECOND PART', summary for chapter XVIII:]—Other Friends—Woman Suffrage.
xx.18-22: [Table of contents, 'SECOND PART', chapter title and summary:]
CHAPTER XIX│RETROSPECTION' Meeting of colored citizens in Washington to express their sympathy│at the great national bereavement, the death of President Garfield—│Concluding reflections and convictions.
xx.23-26: [Table of contents, 'SECOND PART':] APPENDIX.│Oration at the unveiling of the Freedmen's monument, at Lincoln Park,│Washington, D.C., April 14, 1876-Extract from a speech delivered│at Elmira, N.Y., August 1, 1880.
415.3-6: [Chapter summary:] The Santo Domingo controversy—Decoration
Day at Arlington, 1871—│Speech delivered there—National colored convention at New Orleans,│1872—Elector at large for the State of New York—Death of Hon.│Henry Wilson.
483.2-5: [Chapter title and summary:] Retrospection.│Meeting of colored citizens in Washington to express their sympathy│at the great national bereavement the death of President Garfield—│Concluding reflections and convictions.
516.17-518.26: ['chance in the race of life.' is followed by eight paragraphs:]
Do I hear you ask in a tone of despair if this time will│ever come to our people in America? The question is not│new to me. I have tried to answer it many times and in│many places, when the outlook was less encouraging than│now. There was a time when we were compelled to walk by│faith in this matter, but now, I think, we may walk by sight.│Notwithstanding the great and all-abounding darkness ofour│past, the clouds that still overhang us in the moral and social│sky, the defects inherited from a bygone condition of servitude,│it is the faith of my soul that this brighter and better day will│yet come. But whether it shall come late or come soon will│depend mainly upon ourselves.
The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal. We shall reap as we sow.│There is no escape. The conditions of success are universal│and unchangeable. The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps disappear altogether. No power beneath the│sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosper-│ous, or a licentious people happy.
One ground of hope for my people is founded upon the returns of the last census. One of the most disheartening│ethnological speculations concerning us has been that we shall│die out; that, like the Indian, we shall perish in the blaze of Caucasian civilization. The census sets that heresy concerning us to rest. We are more than holding our own in all the│southern states. We are no longer four millions of slaves,│but six millions of freemen.
Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education. Everywhere in the south the colored man is learn-│ing to read. None now denies the ability of the colored race│to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters. Our colored schools in the city of Washington compare favorably with the white│schools, and what is true of Washington is equally true of│other cities and towns of the south. Still another ground of│hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their│gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.│They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies│against their friends.
Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer's whip can│keep them from voting their convictions. Then another ground of│hope is that as a general rule we are an industrious people.│I have traveled extensively over the south, and almost the only│people I saw at work there were the colored people. In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become│proprietors of the soil. Only arbitrary
conditions can prevent│this. To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes│upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.│Not less encouraging than this is the political situation at the│south.
The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and│stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and│defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient senti-│ment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling│ the action of political parties.
While the Constitution of the United States shall guarantee│the colored man's right to vote, somebody in the south will│want that vote and will offer the terms upon which that vote│can be obtained.
Thus the forces against us are passion and prejudice, which│are transient, and those for us are principles, self-acting, self-│sustaining, and permanent. My hope for the future of my│race is further supported by the rapid decline of an emotional, shouting, and thoughtless religion. Scarcely in any direction│can there be found a less favorable field for mind or morals│than where such a religion prevails. It abounds in the│wildest hopes and fears, and in blind, unreasoning faith.│Instead of adding to faith virtue, its tendency is to substitute│faith for virtue, and is a deadly enemy to our progress.│There is still another ground for hope. It arises out of a│comparison of our past condition with our present one,—the│immeasurable depths from which we have come and the│point of progress already attained. We shall look over the│world, and survey the history of any other oppressed and│enslaved people in vain, to find one which has made more│progress within the same length of time, than have the colored people of the United States. These, and many other considerations which I might name, give brightness and fervor│to my hopes that that better day for which the more thought- ful amongst us have long labored, and millions of our│people have sighed for centuries, is near at hand.
Binding: Edges trimmed 7 27/32" X 5".
Note: To conclude the introduction on p. xi rather than on p. xii as in the first printing, and thus accommodate the inclusion of a list of illustrations lacking in the first printing, Park Publishing Company deleted five lines of text and the 1 September 1881 dating.
Locations: Library Company of Philadelphia (2 copies, one rebound, the other inscribed by Douglass to R. Purvis, dated 1882); Charles L. Blockson Collection, Temple University ('Princeton Ladies Reading Society' copy, dated April 1882'); British Library (not a deposit copy, receipt dated 11 February 1928); New-York Historical Society.
A3. First American Edition, Third Printing
Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Co., 1882
The same as the second American printing, binding A, except for:
Pagination: [1-4] 5-13 [14-15] 16-23 [24] 25-34 [35-36] 37-64 [65-66] 67-72 [73-74] 75-88 [89-90] 91-152 [153-54] 155-90 [191-92] 193-220 [221-22] 223-32 [233-34] 235-62 [263- 64] 265-306 [307-08] 309-68 [369-70] 371-420 [421-22] 423-52 [453-54] 455-58 [459-60] 461-74 [475-76] 477-96 [497-98] 499-546 [547-48] 549-64. The 17 tipped-in plates (rectos and versos without page numbers) are now included in the pagination (see the inferred page numbers within brackets beginning with [35-36] and ending with [547-48]).
Collation: [1]12 2-612 [7]13 (712 v+l) 8-2212; signed on the rectos of the second and sixth leaves of gatherings [2-3] and [5-6], the recto of the second leaf and verso of the sixth leaf (p. 92) of gathering 4, the rectos of the first and fifth leaves of gatherings 8-10 and 12-22; and on the recto of the first leaf only in gathering [11]. Tipped in is the leaf for pp. 179-80.
Contents: [1]: title page; [2]: copyright page; [3-4]: blank; 5-13: table of contents; [14]: list of illustrations; [15] 16-23: Introduction; [24]: blank; 25-564: text; [565-66]: blank. On p. 199 below the text appears the emblem of the '3rd UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS'.
Text: 12.34 [p. xxii, line 30 in the first printing and p. xix, line 34, in the second]: CHAPTER XVI.
368.13 [p. 336 in previous printings]: disapproval
409.37 [p. 375 in previous printings]: *See Note on page 413.
413.16-24 [p. 379 in previous printings]: *I sincerely regret that I have done Mr. Winthrop great injustice. This│Faneuil Hall speech of his was not the first manifestation of his zealous in-│terest in the loyal cause during the late war. While it is quite true that Mr.│Winthrop was strongly against the anti-slavery movement atthe North, his│addresses and speeches delivered during the war, as they have cometo│my knowledge since writing the foregoing chapter, prove him to have been│among the most earnest in his support of the National Government in its efforts to suppress the rebellion and to restore the Union.│FREDERICK DOUGLAS.
527.2 [p. 483 in previous printings]: RETROSPECTION.
Paper: White wove paper, .006" thick. Sheets bulk 1 5/8".
Binding: Edges trimmed 7 3/4" X 5 1/16".
Publication: The printing first including the footnote appearing on p. 413 occurred in or after March 1882. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., had informed Douglass of the degree to which he had misrepresented his father and directed him to the speeches his father had made in support of the Union cause. In his reply, Douglass assured him how "very much obliged" he was for the information, explaining that the mistake he had made would not "have happened...had I not been in the West when these speeches were made and published in the Boston papers and thus escaped my notice." Douglass to Robert C. Winthrop, letter tipped into a copy of the first printing of the first American edition of Life, March 3, 1882, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Locations: Charles L. Blockson Collection, Temple University; McElrath Collection.
A4. First American Edition, Fourth Printing
Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Company, 1882
The same as the third printing, binding A, except [1-12]12 1312 [14- 21]12 [22]13 (2212 v + l ). Signed only on the rectos of the second and sixth leaves in gathering [13]12 (pp. 311 and 319). Tipped in is the leaf for pp. 563-64. (See Note.) Edges trimmed 7 13/16" X 5 1/16".
Location: Lilly Library, Indiana University.
Note: That this printing was used for the typesetting of the second American edition is suggested by the signing of the latter's gathering 13 in its first printing: it is the only gathering signed twice, on the rectos of its first and fifth leaves.
A5. First American Edition, Fifth Printing (A5)
Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Company, 1882
The same as the fourth printing, binding A, except all gatherings are unsigned. Edges trimmed 7 13/16" X 5 1/8.
Location: Buffalo and Erie County Central Library.
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B1. Second American Edition. First Printing
Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Co., et al., 1882
Title Page: 30 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, INCLUDING│[13 lines with progressively more narrow widths:] HIS CONNECTION WITH THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT; HIS LABORS IN GREAT BRITAIN│AS WELL AS 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 INTER-│VIEWS WITII PRESIDENTS LINCOLN AND JOHNSON; 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 MARSHALL BY PRESIDENT│R. B. HAYES; ALSO HIS APPOINTMENT TO BE RECORDER OF DEEDS IN WASHINGTON BY PRESIDENT J. A. GARFIELD;│WITH MANY OTHER INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT│EVENTS OF HIS MOST
EVENTFUL LIFE:│WITH I AN INTRODUCTION BY MR. GEORGE: L. RUFFIN,│OF BOSTON.│[single rule]│HARTFORD, CONN.:│PARK PUBLISHING CO.│GEO. M. REWELL & CO., CLEVELAND, O.; J. S. GOODMAN & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.;│PHILLIPS & HUNT, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.│1882.'.
Copyright page: Three lines, 'COPYRIGHTED BY│PARK PUBLISHING CO.,│1881.'.
Pagination: [1-5] 6-15 [16] [16a- 16b] 17-36 [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 [619-20]. As in the first American edition, page numbers appear within parentheses on the first pages of chapters. As was not the case with the first American edition until the third printing, the page count includes the 17 plates (recto and verso). For the placement of the tipped-in plates, see the inferred page numbers (within brackets) beginning with pp. [37- 38] and ending with pp. [599-600]. The exception is the plate inserted between pp. 254 and 255, which is not included in the page count. Also not included in the pagination is the integral ninth leaf or the first gathering, pp. [16 a-b], on the recto of which appears the list of illustrations.
Collation: [1]12 2-2412 256. Signed on first leaf recto only, except in gathering 1312 which is also signed on the fifth leaf recto. Frontispiece portrait and 17 plates tipped-in.
Contents: [1]: blank; [2]: frontispiece portrait; [3]: title page; [4]: copyright page; [5] 6-15: 'CONTENTS'; [16]: blank; [16a]: list or illustrations (18, including frontispiece portrait, are listed and are the same as those appearing in the first American edition); [16b]: blank; 17-24: 'INTRODUCTION' by George L. Rutlin; 25-618: text; [619-20]: blank.
Typography and Paper: 6 5/16" (6 1/32") X 3 9/16" (p. 229). 35 lines per page (but 36 lines on p. 499). Running heads: as in the first American edition, they are uniform, recto and verso, for 'INTRODUCTION.' and 'CONTENTS.'; thereafter, except on the first pages of each chapter, the running head of each page is unique and glosses the text. White wove paper, .005" thick, sheets bulk 1 17/32".
Binding A: As in the first printing of the first American edition. Edges trimmed, 7 27/32" X 5 1/8". White wove end papers. See Note.
Binding B: Pasted on the rebound copies at the Butler Library and the Schomburg Center are portions of the spine and front of the original binding: black- and gold-stamped olive brown calico. For a full description, see Binding. Second American Edition, Second Printing. Third Issue (B2c).
Locations: Binding A: McElrath Collection; Frederick Douglass Papers Editiorial Office; Mabree Library, Sterling College. Binding B: Butler Library, Columbia University. Rebound: Butler Library, Columbia University; Schomburg Center.
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: black-stamped 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 double-rule 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
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, "APPOINTMENT'; 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).
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BX1. Expanded Second American Edition, First Printing
Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1893
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 tipped-in 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.
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,
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] 20-23 [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] 359-68 [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.
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
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:] FREDK 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]│
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 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│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.
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.