Research Catalog

Title

West Africa before Europe, : and other addresses, delivered in England in 1901 and 1903 / by Edward Wilmot Blyden ; with an introduction by Casely Hayford.

Author

Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912

Publication

London : C.M. Phillips, 1905.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Phillips, C. M.
• Hayford, J. E. Casely (Joseph Ephraim Casely), 1866-1930.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

4 preliminary leaves, iv, 158 pages : frontispiece (portrait); 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

• Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
• Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Black people > Africa
• Islam
• Black people
• Africa, West
• Africa
• West Africa

Genre/Form

Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• Includes the author's article, "Islam in the Western Soudan," reprinted from Journal of African society, October, 1902.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in microfilm. Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-863.

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Contents

Introduction -- Chapter 1. West Africa: Address Delivered Before Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, September 1901 -- Chapter 2. Islam in the Western Soudan -- Reprinted from Journal of African Society, October 1902 -- chapter 3. Some Problems of West Africa: Address Delivered Before Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, June 16, 1903 -- Chapter 4. West Africa Before Europe: Address Delivered Before the African Society, June 26, 1903.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916.6-B (Blyden, E. W. West Africa before Europe)

LCCN

06027329

OCLC

3252192

Author

Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912, author.

Title

West Africa before Europe, : and other addresses, delivered in England in 1901 and 1903 / by Edward Wilmot Blyden ; with an introduction by Casely Hayford.

Publisher

London : C.M. Phillips, 1905.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Physical Medium

8vo. rdabf

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 1, page 936, column 1, row 7

Additional Formats

Also available in microfilm. Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-863.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division possesses two copies of this book. Copy 1 (accession # A973730) originally part of the 135 Street Branch's Circulation Department. Probably added or transferred to the Schomburg when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian, and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," NYPL's perforated stamp, & ink stamps of: "Division of Negro Literature and History"; "The New York Public Library: Circulation Department, 135 Street Branch, 103 West 135th St." and "Property of the City of New York." It may have been treated, bound, or rebound in navy cloth over boards, library binding, with gilt spine.

Copy 2 is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," NYPL's perforated stamp, as well as the early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. Imperfect: britle, Loose pages in Library bound cover; blue cloth over broads.

Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-863.

Source

Copy 1; Purchase; Pre-1926; A973730. NN

Copy 2; Purchase; Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926; B594085. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.

Added Author

Phillips, C. M., publisher.

Hayford, J. E. Casely (Joseph Ephraim Casely), 1866-1930.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916.6-B (Blyden, E. W. West Africa before Europe)