STANLEY, Henry M.

In Darkest Africa; or, the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. In Two Volumes [bound as six 'Divisions']

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890.

Quarto, two volumes (bound as six), comprising xxxii, 512 pages (Divisions 1-3), and 513-530, xvi (last blank), 472, xvi (last blank), [2] (publisher's advertisements) pages (Divisions 4-6), with numerous illustrations plus a total of 62 full-page plates and 3 folding colour maps.

Black-pictorial red cloth lettered in gilt; minor signs of use and age (spines sunned, a few corners bumped or lightly worn, edges darkened and a little foxed, with scattered foxing throughout); repairs to tears to the folding map in the first and last divisions; overall, an attractive set in very good condition.

The first leaf in the first division (headed 'This leaf not to be bound with the Volume') contains a short printed note: 'Conditions of Publication. This edition, specially prepared for subscription only, will be completed in Twenty-two parts, at 2s. each, or in Six Divisions, cloth gilt, at 9s. each, and is not obtainable from the ordinary Booksellers'. The index and preliminaries to the first 'Volume' are bound in at the beginning of the fourth Division, and those to the second 'Volume' appear at the end of the sixth Division. [6 items].

Item #126882

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