Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West coast, thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi to the Eastern Ocean. /
Livingstone, David,1813-1873.
Muir, William,donor.StEdNL: RB.s.972
Russell, H.,former owner.StEdNL: Sav.118
Sturge, Esther,active 1858,inscriber.StEdNL: RB.s.3007
London: : John Murray, Albemarle Street.,
1857.
"London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street, and Charing Cross" - title page verso.
Frank R. Bradlow in "The variants of the 1857 edition of Livingstone's 'Missionary travels and researches in South Africa'", pp. 6-19 in B.W. Lloyd (ed.) "Livingstone 1873-1973", cited below, identifies at least 8 variant printings of the 1857 edition.
Pages 8* and 8[dagger], a variant found in "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", give a description of 'Moffat's mission at Kuruman, and Livingstone's courtship of, and marriage to, Mary Moffat. In the copies with this extra leaf a large portion of the original page 8 has been altered'. -- Page 7 of Frank R. Bradlow's article.
For later printings an index was also printed comprising pages [689], 690-711, [1]. The index also exists as a separately printed pamphlet "Index to Livingstone's Journal" which also includes the extra leaf after p. 8, paginated 8* and 8[dagger].
Variant 1 contains tinted lithographs by W. West (frontispiece and facing p. 66) and black and white lithograph by W. West from sketch by Bell, (facing p. 225).
Variant 2 contains tinted lithographs by T. Picken, printed by Day & Son (frontispiece and facing p. 66 and p. 225).
Variant 3 contains wood-engravings by J.W. Whymper (frontispiece and plates facing p. 66 and p. 225) and extra leaf, paginated 8* and 8[dagger], after p. 8.
Variant 4 contains tinted lithograph by T. Picken, printed by Day & Son (frontispiece), wood-engravings by J.W. Whymper (plates facing p. 66 and p. 225).
Variant 5 contains tinted lithographs by T. Picken, printed by Day & Son (frontispiece and plates facing p. 66 and p. 225) and also tinted lithographs by W. West (plates facing p. 66 and 225).
Variant 6 contains chromolithographs in four colours by W. West (frontispiece and plates facing p. 66 and p. 225).
Variant 7 contains wood-engravings by J.W. Whymper (frontispiece and plates facing p. 66 and p. 225) but no extra leaf after p. 8.
Variant 8 contains wood-engravings by J.W. Whymper (frontispiece and plates facing p. 66 and p. 225) and extra leaf, paginated 8* and 8[dagger], after p. 8, and an index, starting after blank page [688], and numbered [689], 690-711, [1] p.
Some copies contain 8 pages of publisher's advertisements dated November 1, 1857 (NLS copies with adverts: Sav.118; GB.988; ABS.3.200.033; RB.s.3007
Bradlow, F.R. Variants
Donated to the National Library of Scotland by William Muir.
Inscription in pencil on front free endpaper reads: "H. Russell, 1965".
Inscription in pencil on upper binder's leaf reads: "From books of Catherine Moir (?) of Kroko girls school, Gold Coast".
With bookseller's label on front pastedown: David Bryce bookseller 129 Buchanan Street Glasgow.
Inscription dated 1858 on front free endpaper by Esther Sturge, Quaker abolitionist, to her brother George and his wife.
Publisher's binding is a case binding of brown cloth over boards; panel stamp blocked in blind. The lower board has a pocket for an extra folded map "Detailed map of the Revd. Dr. Livingstone's route across Africa". Some copies have binder's ticket on lower pastedown: Edmonds & Remnants, London.
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