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The American fugitive in Europe : sketches of places and people abroad

Title
The American fugitive in Europe : sketches of places and people abroad / by Wm. Wells Brown ; with a memoir of the author.
Author
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.
Publication
Boston : Published by John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington ; New York : Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855.

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Additional Authors
  • Woodman, Richard, 1784-1859
  • John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.), publisher.
  • Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, publisher.
  • Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, publisher.
  • Hobart and Robbins, stereotyper.
Description
VIII, [1], 10-320 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 19 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Alternative Title
Sketches of places and people abroad
Subjects
Note
  • An enlarged edition of the author's Three years in Europe, London, 1852: "I have been induced to offer it [Three years in Europe, or Places I have seen and people I have met, London, 1852] to the American public, with a dozen or more additional chapters"--Note to the American edition, p. IV.
  • Frontispiece portrait signed: Drawn & engraved by R. Woodman.
  • "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by John P. Jewett & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
  • "Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, Boston."--verso of title page.
  • "Opinions of the British press"--p. [317]-320.
Indexed In (note)
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
  • Smith, H.F. American travellers abroad (2nd ed.)
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Call Number
Sc Rare 914.2-B (Brown, W. Sketches of places and people abroad)
OCLC
27707294
Author
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.
Title
The American fugitive in Europe : sketches of places and people abroad / by Wm. Wells Brown ; with a memoir of the author.
Imprint
Boston : Published by John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington ; New York : Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855.
Indexed In:
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 1719
Smith, H.F. American travellers abroad (2nd ed.), B143
Provenance
Copy in Sc 914.2-B (accession no. B526957) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Added Author
Woodman, Richard, 1784-1859, engraver.
John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.), publisher.
Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, publisher.
Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, publisher.
Hobart and Robbins, stereotyper.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 914.2-B (Brown, W. Sketches of places and people abroad)
Sc 914.2-B (Brown, W. Sketches of places and people abroad)
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