Fogg, William Perry:

$3,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

"ROUND THE WORLD." LETTERS FROM JAPAN, CHINA, INDIA, AND EGYPT. A presentation copy of this remarkable, world-spanning journey, privately printed for the author, William Perry Fogg, and with his pencil annotations and corrections. Though published the same year as Jules Verne's fictional Around the World in 80 Days (whose protagonist was likely inspired by this work's author), William Perry Fogg's journey actually took place. The text is printed from the original newspaper articles which Fogg wrote for the Cleveland Leader. It is printed in single newspaper column format, and each chapter was printed at about the same time as the original article, from the same typesetting (including the original datelines and typographical errors, carefully corrected by the author in pencil). The work is illustrated by over two dozen photographic plates, many of them original albumen photographic images, the others photographic reproductions of printed plates. The original photographic images include a Chinese village, groups of women and samurai, the famous Kamakura Daibutsu statue, Singapore, and the harbor of Hong Kong. Copies of Fogg's book are found with a widely varying number of plates - this copy has among the largest number we have seen. Fogg travelled by train from Cleveland to Salt Lake City, where he interviewed Brigham Young, described the Mormon sights, and then went on to San Francisco. He steamed across the Pacific to Japan, then visited China, India, and Egypt. Most of the t

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