Three volumes by Clarkson
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CLARKSON, THOMAS. Three works. Comprises An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African. Dublin: P. Byrne and W. Porter, 1786. Original contemporary full tree calf; spine with five plain gilt bands. 8 x 5 inches (20.5 x 12.5 cm); xxxii, 256 pp. Tips rubbed; front hinge cracked but firm; together with An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African. Philadelphia: Wiley, 1804. First American edition. Original full sheep with red morocco spine label. 6 3/4 x 4 inches (17 x 10.5 cm); xxiv, 25-259, [1] pp. Joints cracked, but holding; damp-stains to title-page and preliminaries and the rear 10 leaves; contemporary ownership signature; and CLARKSON, Thomas. History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. London: Longman, et al., 1808. First edition. Two volumes. three-quarters calf, marbled sides. 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches (21.5 x 13.25 cm); 573, 592 pp.; map and plate of manacles in the first volume, the second volume lacking the slave-ship plate. The binding rubbed but sound, internally some spotting, old damp-staining in volume II, which lacks the important folding plate of the slave ship.
Two rare editions of Clarkson's pioneering abolitionist classic; and a decent (though incomplete in the matter of plates) copy of his classic history of the slave-trade and its abolition.
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Three volumes by Clarkson
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