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The Mirror of Misery; or, Tyranny exposed. Extracted from Authentic Documents, and exemplified by Engravings. New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood 1807. 16mo, contemporary marbled paper wrappers, stab-stitched, rubbed, lacking spine, one-inch tear to C3 just entering text, a few minor marginal tears, staining and soiling. [A]2 B-C8 D7 ([A]1 blank), 48 pages, woodcut title vignette, nine woodcuts in the text showing cruel treatment of black slaves, including one full-page cut and one of a slave ship extending across two pages. Sabin 49427; Shaw and Shumacher 13095.
A rare early anti-slavery pamphlet, consisting of several short pieces, including a report on the slave trade signed by W. Elford, chairman of the "Plymouth Committee", a long poem entitled "Essay on Slavery", by a British Captain Marjoribanks (separately printed in Edinburgh in 1792), and three shorter poems. The New-York Historical Society describes its copy as "lacking frontispiece", but no copies with frontispieces are recorded, and the present copy appears to be complete as issued, with the title-leaf preceded by a conjugate blank leaf. RARE (3 copies in NUC).
A rare early anti-slavery pamphlet, consisting of several short pieces, including a report on the slave trade signed by W. Elford, chairman of the "Plymouth Committee", a long poem entitled "Essay on Slavery", by a British Captain Marjoribanks (separately printed in Edinburgh in 1792), and three shorter poems. The New-York Historical Society describes its copy as "lacking frontispiece", but no copies with frontispieces are recorded, and the present copy appears to be complete as issued, with the title-leaf preceded by a conjugate blank leaf. RARE (3 copies in NUC).