A COLLECTION OF SEVEN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WORKS. Including Humanity which attacks the African Slave Trade and Slavery.
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Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United KingdomAlex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA
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All 4to. Half later calf, marbled boards slightly rubbed. Red spine label. With the English text of Fenelon's Tales and Fables London. 1789. (AKENSIDE, Mark). THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. A Poem in Three Books. London. R. Dodsley. 1744. pp. (ii), 5 - 126, (ii) of adverts. Lacking half title, pagination as the British Library copy. Foxon A140 Another edition (2nd edition). BARBAULD, Anna Laetitia. POEMS. London. Joseph Johnson. 1773. pp. vi, 138. Jackson. Romantic Poetry by Women. 2nd edition, same year as the first with p. 2 misnumbered as p. 4. Her first published work. (GLOVER, Richard). MEDEA. A Tragedy. London. Printed by H. Woodfall, sold by J. Morgan. 1761. pp (vi) 98. Light foxing and staining. ESTC T975 (MALLET, David). EDWIN, AND EMMA. Birmingham by John Baskerville for A Millar. 1760. pp.15. Text block lightly browned. ‘A ballad of unhappy love’ ODNB MORE, Hannah. SIR ELDRED OF THE BOWER, AND THE BLEEDING ROCK: Two Legendary Tales. London. T. Cadell. 1776. pp. (vi), 49, (i) of adverts. 1st edition. ESTC T62588. ODNB ‘More ‘earned Johnson's good opinion of her literary merit when she showed him two ballads, Sir Eldred of the Bower and The Bleeding Rock’. PRATT, Samuel Jackson. HUMANITY, or The Rights of Nature, A Poem; in Two Books, by the author of Sympathy. London. T. Cadell. 1788. pp. (iv), iv, 114, (ii) of adverts. 1st edition. ESTC T36737. Hogg. The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression 4194. pp. 12 & 21 a couple of ink corrections of the text. Pratt says in the Preface ‘ I felt myself called upon by all the awakened emotions of Humanity, to consider Slavery; but not only that species of it which consists in buying and selling our Fellow-Creatures in Aftrica … An hired srvant in Europe may be as little at his own command, and destined to as hard labour as a purchased Negro in Africa; but the essential difference consists in the one being guarded by the laws of the land, which spread before his person and his property a shield that defends him from every abuse of power; and the other is left naked and defenceless to the “insolence of office”. Humanity requires that the Rights of Nature should be enjoyed by every Human Being.’ ODNB ‘Pratt possessed considerable talents, but his necessities left him little time for reflection or revision. Some severe lines on his poetry and prose were in the original manuscript of Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, but they were omitted from publication.’ SWIFT, Theophilus. THE TEMPLE OF FOLLY. in Four Cantos. London. J. Johnson. 1787. pp. xvi, 96. Frontis. ESTC T49932. ODNB Both (his) father and mother were cousins of Jonathan Swift (1667–1745). …
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- Title
- A COLLECTION OF SEVEN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WORKS. Including Humanity which attacks the African Slave Trade and Slavery.
- Author
- AKENSIDE, Mark; BARBAULD, Anna Laetitia; GLOVER, Richard; MALLET, David; MORE, Hannah; PRATT, Samuel Jackson; SWIFT, Theophilus.
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- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA
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