STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904). In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.
STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904). In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. 2 volumes, demy 4° (290 x 225mm). Limitation printed in red on verso of half-title to vol. I, half-title verso in vol. II with London imprint of William Clowes, titles in red and black. 2 steel-engraved portrait frontispieces, mounted, 2 photogravure plates on India paper, mounted, 36 wood-engraved plates on india, mounted, 6 etchings by M.G. Montbard signed by the artist in pencil, 4 coloured maps and plans -- the 2 larger folding maps mounted on linen, one leaf of autograph facsimiles, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations on India paper, mounted. (Occasional faint marginal finger-soiling.) Original black half morocco over vellum, upper covers with title and author's facsimile autograph in gilt, spines titled in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed, upper cover of vol. II with slight wear at lower edge), modern slipcases. NUMBER 33 OF 250 COPIES IN THE DEMY QUARTO EDITION DE LUXE, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on limitation leaf. Stanley and Emin entered Bagamoyo on their donkeys, some way ahead of their caravan, on 4 December, 1889. It was sensational news. Emin was safe, although the expedition to relieve him had cost the lives of at least 700 people. With the good journalist's facility for rapid reporting, Stanley began his account of the rescue at the Hotel Victoria, Cairo, on 25 January 1890, working on it continuously for fifty days at the rate of 20 printed pages per day. The first portion of the manuscript was delivered to the printer's on 12 March and the last proof sheet returned for printing by Clowes on 3 June. Hosken p. 189. (2)
STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904). In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.
STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904). In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. 2 volumes, demy 4° (290 x 225mm). Limitation printed in red on verso of half-title to vol. I, half-title verso in vol. II with London imprint of William Clowes, titles in red and black. 2 steel-engraved portrait frontispieces, mounted, 2 photogravure plates on India paper, mounted, 36 wood-engraved plates on india, mounted, 6 etchings by M.G. Montbard signed by the artist in pencil, 4 coloured maps and plans -- the 2 larger folding maps mounted on linen, one leaf of autograph facsimiles, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations on India paper, mounted. (Occasional faint marginal finger-soiling.) Original black half morocco over vellum, upper covers with title and author's facsimile autograph in gilt, spines titled in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed, upper cover of vol. II with slight wear at lower edge), modern slipcases. NUMBER 33 OF 250 COPIES IN THE DEMY QUARTO EDITION DE LUXE, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on limitation leaf. Stanley and Emin entered Bagamoyo on their donkeys, some way ahead of their caravan, on 4 December, 1889. It was sensational news. Emin was safe, although the expedition to relieve him had cost the lives of at least 700 people. With the good journalist's facility for rapid reporting, Stanley began his account of the rescue at the Hotel Victoria, Cairo, on 25 January 1890, working on it continuously for fifty days at the rate of 20 printed pages per day. The first portion of the manuscript was delivered to the printer's on 12 March and the last proof sheet returned for printing by Clowes on 3 June. Hosken p. 189. (2)
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