Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass - Folio Society - 2022

Edition
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass - Folio Society - 2022

Condition
Like New.  Some shelf wear to slipcase

Details
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself, including “what to the slave is the fourth of July?”, introduced by Kwame Dawes. 204 × 136 × 23 mm. Pp. [i–iv] v–xlii, [1–2] 3–156 [157–158]: [7] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], 14, 31, 62, 79, 111 and 126). Type: Bell. Printed and bound by
Gomer Press in full gold cloth printed in black with portrait and text blocked in black; dark red endleaves. Dark red slip case blocked with the line ‘You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.’ The plates reproduce six framed daguerreotypes and an ambrotype of Douglass taken between approximately 1841 and 1856.