Shelfmark
Ag.5.18 [Copy 1]
Additional shelfmark
Go.2.08 [Copy 2]
Author
Title
Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park ... With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to his Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1799.
Physical description
xxviii, 372, xcii p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : maps, music, port. ; 26 cm. (4to)
Note
The "Appendix" has a divisional titlepage with separate pagination and register.
Note
The postscript, followed by two leaves of engraved music, is bound in various places in different copies.
Note
Engraved frontispiece of author, illustrated by H. Edridge and engraved by T. Dickinson.
Note
With a half-title and a list of subscribers.
Note
Includes words and music of a song, pp. xxi-xxv.
Note
Includes errata, p. xx.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N13836
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1985. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1502, no. 9).
Additional physical form available
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Provenance
[Copy 1, 2] Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Armorial bookplate of Charles Yonge with motto “qualis vita finis ita”, undated, on front pastedown.
Binding
[Copy 1] 18th century gold-tooled calf.
Binding
[Copy 2] 18th/19th-century dark brown calfskin over millboards. Covers decorated with gilt tools to form a border. Spine rebacked with five raised bands, decorated with blind fillets, gilt tools and titling ("Travels in the interior of Africa"; "Mungo Park"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of modern paper including pastedowns; four flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Card catalogue entry inserted between front pastedown and endpaper.
Subject
Africa Discovery and exploration Early works to 1800.
Subject
Africa Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Edridge, Henry, 1769 - 1821 illustrator.
Added entry--name
W. Bulmer and Co. printer.
Added entry--name
G. and W. Nicol bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B10696