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Hardback. Early Reprint. Two volumes in one Original full calf binding with five raised bands to spine Various ink inscriptions to fep and title page Boards and spine heavily work Front board detached Missing ffep Title page loose with loss to top right corner not affecting text Ink inscriptions to several pages Pages toned with some grubby marks Overall fair condition 135 128 pp Sweet copy of an early reprint. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First American edition by this publisher. 32mo. 16pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and title vignette engraved by "W. Howland," depicting "The African Widow" washed ashore after a shipwreck, and two text vignettes. Sewn buff wrappers printed in green within decorative border. Early browning and light spotting on covers, a very good copy, with the text and illustrations very fresh and clean. A narrative poem for children, the introduction states: "On lately reading the Report of a Society instituted for the relief of the wants of the poor Africans and Asiatic strangers, whom various circumstances in Providence have brought to England, I was much struck with the very affecting narrative of a black woman which is added to the Report. It occurred to me that it might be well to state the circumstances of her life in a few and simple rhymes.". Not in *Blockson* or *Work*, both of which note two other Anti-Slavery themed titles by Legh Richmond (see Blockson 8613 & 9117; Work, p. 463); See LCP, *Afro-Americana* 168 for an earlier Andover American Tract Society imprint of *The African Widow*.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Very Good. Salisbury, 1766; VOLUME II, ONLY; bound in the original blue/gray paper covered boards and gray spine; front joint split with webbing exposed but board attached; edge and corner wear with board exposed at corners; spine edges frayed to missing; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; complete with the Double-error point of issue; ("Waekefield" typo on page 95 and pagination error of page 165 instead of 159); pages brittle and delicate; front hinge split with webbing exposed; free front end paper through title page detached but present; interior pages in very good conditon, un-open and un-cut; interior clean and unmarked; 223 pages.