The African trader
Subtitle: or, The adventures of Harry Bayford
By: by William H. G. Kingston.
Contributors: Measom, William Frederick, fl. 1840s-1876.; Kronheim & Co.
Publisher: Gall & Inglis
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Other titles: Adventures of Harry Bayford
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-32 at end entitled: "Illustrated list of Gall & Inglis' Books for Young Folks.".  Advertisements include several wood-engraved illustrations, one of which is signed: "W. Measom".

Preliminary colour wood-engraved plate is unsigned and without imprint.  Plate is with caption printed in red.

Plate is a colour wood engravings produced using the "Baxter Process", with areas and lines that are printed with an intaglio metal plate.

According to Ruari McLean, colour plate is printed by Kronheim & Co.  Cf. His notes at Massey College Library.

Includes small wood-engraved decorative initials and tail-pieces.

MASS copy: Bound in lavender calico cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover printed in red and green with title and illustrated border.  Lower cover blocked in blind and spine blocked in gold.  Spine with imprint: "Gall & Inglis".