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Additional authors

1. Matlack, Lucius C., 1816-1883.
2. Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898
3. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

1. 207 pages : illustrations; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. Biographies
2. United States
3. Southern States
4. Bookplates (Provenance)
5. Inscriptions (Provenance)
6. Kentucky
7. Slavery
8. Bibb, Henry, 1815-1854
9. Fugitive slaves > United States
10. Enslaved persons > Southern States
11. Enslaved persons > Kentucky > Biography
12. Black author

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)
2. Bookplates (Provenance)
3. Biographies.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92-B (Bibb, H. Narrative)

Note

1. Frontispiece "engraved by P.H. Reason."
2. ""Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by Henry Bibb, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York."-- t.p. verso.

Indexed in (note)

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

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available on microfiche and digital format; Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy In: Sc Micro F-16942 or to the electronic resource.

Source (note)

1. Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

1. Incribed in red ink on the preliminary page: "A present from father Dec. 25, 1891 to [Wm. M. H.?] Andrews, Lowell, Mass."

Author

1. Bibb, Henry, 1815-1854, author.

Title

1. Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave / written by himself ; with an introduction by Lucius C. Matlack.

Publisher

1. New York : Published by the Author, 5 Spruce Street, 1849.

Manufacturer

1. New York : MacDonald & Lee, Printers, 9 Spruce Street, 1849.

Edition

1. 3rd stereotype ed.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 1, page 875, column 3, row 4

Additional formats

1. Also available on microfiche and digital format; Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy In: Sc Micro F-16942 or to the electronic resource.

Provenance

1. Incribed in red ink on the preliminary page: "A present from father Dec. 25, 1891 to [Wm. M. H.?] Andrews, Lowell, Mass."

Local note

1. The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is a gift donated by "Arthur A. Schomburg" probably added to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," the NYPL perforated stamp, and early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. Library-bound in red cloth over boards, with the illustrated cloth of the original decorated cover pasted on the front and back and gilt spine title; also includes a library rebounding date stamped: "May 4, 1942" on page [3] of the cover. G. K. Halls v. 1, page 875, column 3, row 4 showed a "July 17, 1942" re-cataloging date.

Source

1. Gift; Arthur A. Schomburg; G57750. NN

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Access to Special Collections Material

Local subject

1. Black author.

Place of publication

1. United States New York New York.

Added author

1. Matlack, Lucius C., 1816-1883.
2. Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898, engraver.
3. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
4. Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948, collection librarian.
5. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, donor.

Other form:

1. Online version: Bibb, Henry, 1815- Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave. 3rd stereotype ed. New York : H. Bibb, 1849 (OCoLC)879551640

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92-B (Bibb, H. Narrative)