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Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2007
ISBN 10: 0548673136ISBN 13: 9780548673133
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
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Published by Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010
ISBN 10: 1161712739ISBN 13: 9781161712735
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Published by London: for R. Bowyer, by T. Bensley, 1809, 1809
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, published to celebrate the 1807 abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire, comprising three long poems: Montgomery's "The West Indies", Grahame's "Africa Delivered" and Benger's "A Poem Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade". "James Montgomery, James Grahame, and E. Benger rejoiced in slave-trade abolition as a triumph of the liberal nation and empire in Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1809). The book was intended to 'popularly commemorate' the 'illustrious act of the British Legislature', as the printer's advertisement announced. The abolition bill had 'vindicate[d] our religion and our laws'. Not only was it evidence of 'the dignity of the British Empire', but it had also 'extend[ed] its influence to the. universal interest of mankind'. Dedicated to the 'Society for Bettering the Condition of the Natives of Africa', the compilation of poems celebrated the spread of Britannia's liberty to desperate Africa. The book stressed how civilized Britannia had saved heathen Africa by ending the slave trade, venerating an Anglo-American pantheon of white abolitionists and downplaying the continued horrors of West Indian plantation slavery. Indeed, the compilation celebrated the end of the trade as if it were the end of slavery itself" (Gibbs, p. 95). The engravings after paintings by Smirke include now well-known images. Smirke had made his reputation with his Shakespearean illustrations - in contemporary sales his art was out-priced only by Reynolds - but George III refused to accept him as keeper of the Royal Academy in 1804 on account of his democratic principles. Montgomery's poem was subsequently published separately and proved hugely popular; he is best remembered today as a hymn writer. The Scottish lawyer turned cleric and poet James Grahame was great-uncle of Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows. Elizabeth Benger (merely "E. Benger" here) struggled to forge a literary career, trying various genres, including poetry, before later finding success with historical biographies of royal women, paving the way for others such as the Strickland sisters and Mary Anne Everett Green. Sabin 50145. Jenna M. Gibbs, Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850, 2014. Quarto (300 x 241 mm). Recent blue pebbled quarter morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Engraved title by A. Raimbach after R. Smirke, 3 engraved medallion portraits of abolitionists Sharp, Clarkson, and Wilberforce by W. Worthington after models by Miss C. Andras, and 9 engraved plates by E. Scriven and Worthington after Smirke. 20th-century signature to tissue guard and engraved title, 19th-century library stamp of Bibliotheque Du Roi Neuilly to letterpress title. Repair to tear at foot of title, plates a little browned and foxed. A good copy.