THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. A Poem in Four Parts. Embellished with engravings by the first artists from pictures painted by R.Smirke Esq, R.A.
London, Printed by T.Bentley for R.Boyer, 1814. 4to. pp.53 plus 12 tissue guarded plates .Rebound in half calf with matching cloth boards, new endpapers. A couple of minor marks internally, previous owners name on the endpaper else a very good copy. Item #192910
The plates include images of slavery and portraits of Clarkson, Wilberforce and Sharpe.
Poet and journalist. He was born in 1771 in Scotland. His parents were missionaries and died in Barbados.Commissioned by publisher Robert Bowyer, and dedicated to the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Natives of Africa, the volume revels in 'the dignity of the British Empire' and her enlightened triumph in instigating 'that great legislative event' for the 'universal interest of mankind'.
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