Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

On page 336 the first printing misprints 'disproval' for 'disapproval,' an error not corrected until the third printing, and its copyright page carries only the two-line statement 'Copyrighted by Park Publishing Co., 1881.' The book is bound in dark red calico, blindstamped on the front and back boards with a rule-bordered box of floral and eagle-and-female devices and gold-stamped on the spine 'Life / and / Times of Fred'k Douglass' above 'Illustrated'; a parallel first-edition binding state has the front-cover devices gold-stamped rather than blindstamped, with gilt (rather than plain) trimmed edges