NMLP P-035967 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09
How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa
Henry M. Stanley · Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle (London) · 1872
The London edition, published by Sampson Low soon after Stanley reached England in the summer of 1872, is treated as the first edition, preceding the New York edition from Scribner, Armstrong & Co.; the American edition substitutes a wood-engraved frontispiece of Stanley and his servant Kalulu for the mounted albumen photograph used in the London printing.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-035967 for "How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa" by Henry M. Stanley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035967, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).