THE TSHI-SPEAKING PEOPLES OF THE GOLD COAST OF WEST AFRICA. Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, etc by Ellis, A.B - 1964-01-01

Oosterhout: Anthropological Publications. vii 343pp hardback, map, brown cloth gilt, ownership signature, facsimile reprint of the 1887 edition, good . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2nd Printing. 1970.

First edition. Chapman and Hall. London. 1887. 8vo. vii, 343pp. 16pp publisher's catalogue dated 1893. Frontispiece map. Musical notation p328-330. Original cloth, gilt, blind stamped decoration to covers. Floral endpapers. Hinges a little tender. Some light spotting to prelims and catalogue. Light edge wear and fraying to head of spine. Signature dated 1909 to half title.

Alfred Burdon Ellis (1852 – 1894) British Army officer and ethnographer.

Chapman & Hall, 1887. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, red cloth lettered gilt to spine. Some mottle fading to the upper board and at the foot of the lower board. Hinges starting but the stitching remains intact and the text is clean and unmarked. Map, vii + 343pp.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; floral endpapers; vii,[1]-343pp; map frontispiece. Endpapers darkened, but joints sound; slight external rubbing and a few tiny chips to marginal extremities of text; text quite fresh and still a solid, attractive copy, easily VG. Contemporary, embossed private library stamp to rear endpaper (W.H. Smith & Son / Library / 186 Strand). Anthropological study of the Twi people of the Gold Coast (now Guinea), based on Ellis's observations as a British army officer during and after the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874).