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WHEATLEY, Phyllis (ca 1753-1784). Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. London: Printed for A. Bell, 1773.
8o (174 x 109 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. (Light offsetting on title, some occasional pale spotting.) Modern black half morocco, marbled boards. Provenance: Frederick W. Skiff (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF POETRY WRITTEN BY A BLACK AMERICAN, with the Attestation leaf. Wheatley was tutored in the household of John Wheatley, where she was a slave after coming to Boston from Senegal in 1761. On a trip to England in 1773 she was taken into the circle of the Countess of Huntington and arrangements were made for the publication of her Poems. Brawley 31; Sabin 10316; Wegelin 432.
8o (174 x 109 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. (Light offsetting on title, some occasional pale spotting.) Modern black half morocco, marbled boards. Provenance: Frederick W. Skiff (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF POETRY WRITTEN BY A BLACK AMERICAN, with the Attestation leaf. Wheatley was tutored in the household of John Wheatley, where she was a slave after coming to Boston from Senegal in 1761. On a trip to England in 1773 she was taken into the circle of the Countess of Huntington and arrangements were made for the publication of her Poems. Brawley 31; Sabin 10316; Wegelin 432.