IN DARKEST AFRICA

2 volumes, 529 + 472 pages, frontispiece portrait of Stanley in volume one, frontispiece in volume 2 of H. Stanley, Sir William Mackinnon and Sir F. de Winton (both are heliogravures by Lemercier & Co., Paris), title pages printed in red and black, 11 map - 3 folding maps two of which are mounted on linen, 40 plates and numerous text illustrations all printed in India paper, 6 full page etchings signed in pencil by the artist G. Montbard (specially commissioned for this de luxe edition) with captioned tissue guards – there is some foxing mainly in the margins of these plates, half brown morocco with vellum boards (the leather is rubbed at the edges and on the raised bands and the vellum is soiled), titled gilt and with vignettes and Stanley's signature in gilt on the upper covers, top edges gilt, other edges uncut and lightly dust soiled, some foxing in a few places but overall the contents which are printed on John Dickinson & Co. watermarked laid paper are crisp, silk place markers.

No 175 of the Demy Quarto Edition De Luxe limited to 250 copies signed by Henry M Stanley.

Book plate of Edna and Frank Bradlow on the front pastedown endpaper.

'This was to be Stanley's last expedition to Africa. He was charged with rescuing Emin Pasha (Viceroy), who had been appointed a governor in the southern Sudan by the British, and had been forced to retreat to the Lake Albert (now northern Uganda) by the uprising led by an Islamic holy man. In 1888 Stanley journeyed up the Congo and to the lake, reaching Emin, who refused to leave. Eventually persuaded by Stanley, they proceeded to the Indian Ocean by way of the Semliki River which was found to connect Lake Albert with Lake Edward.' From the facsimile reprint published by The Narrative Press, 2001.