Carefully compiled from reliable sources
2 volumes, [508] - 973 pages – continuous pagination, additional lithographic title page in volume 1, lithographic frontispiece in Volume 1 - The meeting of Stanley and Livingstone, frontispiece in Volume 2 – Musicians playing before Livingstone's tent, numerous tinted lithographic plates, decorative brown cloth gilt with bevelled boards, blind stamped on the back covers, spines gilt, edges gilt, a very good set.
A South African Bibliography, Volume 4, pages 53-54, ascribes the authorship to John S. Roberts. The author's name does not appear in the book. This variant is not listed in SABIB.
This work, compiled from secondary sources, was issued by a number of different publishers and other commercial firms in Britain. An edition was published in Australia and there was a Welsh translation. The binding was offered in a variety of formats of which this is an interesting variant.
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