Lascelles e c p (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Very Good.

First Edition. Lascelles, E[dward] C[harles] P[onsonby] [1884-1956]. Granville Sharp and the Freedom of Slaves in England. London: Oxford University Press, 1928. viii, 151 pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 3 tissue-guarded plates. Original blue-green cloth with gilt stamped spine and "G#" symbol in a golden circle to front cover, deckle fore and bottom edges, bookseller ticket (Heraldry Today, Ramsbury, Wiltshire) to rear pastedown. Light, mostly negligible shelfwear, moderate soiling to spine, which is slightly cocked, ink inscription "Ernest Guest/ with all good wishes/ July 3rd 1935/ In Loving Memory of Mrs Slatter" to front free endpaper. Internally clean. A very good copy. $150. * First edition, first printing. A biographical account of Granville Sharp (1735-1813), a key figure in the British anti-slavery movement which details Sharp's lifelong campaign against slavery, particularly his use of legal arguments to challenge its legitimacy within England. This work focuses on Sharp's efforts as a lay lawyer to secure legal precedents against slavery. This includes his involvement in key court cases, most notably the Somersett case of 1772, where the ruling established that a slave could not be forcibly removed from England against their will. Lascelles covers Sharp's role in the wider abolitionist movement, including his co-founding and chairmanship of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787. Sharp's activism was heavily influenced by his Evangelical Christian beliefs. The book discusses how he used religious and natural law arguments, rather than just legal ones, to argue that slavery was incompatible with the English constitution and Christian principles. This book details Sharp's extensive writings, such as his pamphlet A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery (1769), which was the first major anti-slavery work by a British writer. Lascelles also touches upon Sharp's support for the Sierra Leone project, an attempt to resettle some of London's poor Black population in West Africa. The book is a well-written, brief account of Sharp's many interests in philanthropy and reform, with an emphasis on the issue of slavery and his pivotal role in paving the way for the eventual abolition of the slave trade in 1807.…

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait of Sharp by Joshua Reynolds, 3 further monochrome plates, all tissue-guarded, a few light spots, pp. viii, 151, 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the latter with a few spots, edges untrimmed and largely uncut, dustjacket with a striking design by 'Hawes', a couple of light handling marks, the backstrip panel sunned and chipped at head, a little chipping at corners, ownership inscription to front pastedown, very good. A biographical account of this key figure of the eighteenth-century British anti-slavery movement. The author, Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles (1884-1956), was himself descended from the prominent family of Barbadian plantation owners and slave holders.…