Northrop, Henry Davenport; Gay, Joseph R. & Penn. The College of Life, or Self-Educator. A Manual for the Self-Improvement for the Colored Race. Forming an Educational Emancipator and a Guide to Success. Profusion of engravings. Small, thick 4to; 720

Northrop, Henry Davenport; Gay, Joseph R. & Penn. The College of Life, or Self-Educator. A Manual for the Self-Improvement for the Colored Race. Forming an Educational Emancipator and a Guide to Success. Profusion of engravings. Small, thick 4to; 720 pages; publisher's pictorially stamped grey cloth with vignettes of Toussaint and Frederick Douglass on front cover and Booker T. Washington on the spine; recased with new endpapers; outer margins of the first 10 leaves reinforced with archival rice paper; covers rubbed, but quite legible. Boston: Bay State Company, circa 1891