Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 86

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. Engraved frontispiece slightly foxed. 170 pages. Small 8vo, original cloth with the title in gilt up the spine; re-cased preserving the original spine. Wortley near Leeds, 1846

Additional Details

The third English edition, printing here, for the first time a stenographic transcription of a speech given by Douglass at Finsbury Chapel on 22 May, 1846. A very nice copy of one of the most important slave narratives.