Stanley's wonderful adventures in Africa : comprising accurate and graphic accounts of the exploration of equatorial Africa, the finding of Livingstone by Stanley, the expedition to the great lakes by Sir Samuel Baker, the discoveries of Lieutenant Cameron in his overland journey across the continent, the exploration of the Congo by Stanley ... / the story of these wonderful adventures and brilliant achievements down to the present day is fully set forth by the Hon. J.T. Headley ... and Willis Fletcher Johnson ... ; richly illustrated.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Headley, J. T., 1813-1897, author.

Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931, author.

Contributor:

Edgewood Publishing Co., publisher.

Canvassing and Sample Book Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904.

Stanley, Henry M.

Africa, Central--Description and travel.

Africa, Central.

Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.

Dummies (Bookselling).

Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription trade, etc.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Travel.

Central Africa.

Genre:

Dummies.

Penn Provenance:

Tiffany, Carroll H. (autograph) (Canvassing Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings, [1] leaf of folded plates) : illustrations, portrait, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

[Salesmen's dummy]

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : Edgewood Publishing Co., 1889.

Notes:

Salesmen's dummy consisting of sample pages and illustrations (including one plate, a folded map of equatorial Africa), publisher's advertisement, and subscription register.

Binding: full blue publisher's cloth over beveled-edge boards; Stanley's portrait and autograph stamped in gold on left board; title, first author's surname, and "ILLUSTRATED" stamped in gold and blind along with gold- and blind-stamped vignette on left board; decorative endpapers.

Local Notes:

Canvassing Collection copy imperfect: two subscriber sheets wanting.

Canvassing Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Ian Brabner.

Canvassing Collection copy has autograph ("Carroll H Tiffany"), possibly of Carroll Hobart Tiffany (1887-1974), in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Canvassing Collection copy: tear in folded plate mended on verso with clear tape.

OCLC:

1325713214