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Property from the Estate of Professor Leland R. Phelps
WHEATLEY, Phyllis (ca 1753-1784). Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. London: Printed for A. Bell, 1773.
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WHEATLEY, Phyllis (ca 1753-1784). Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. London: Printed for A. Bell, 1773.
8º (176 x 112 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. (Lacking the preliminaries as often with dedication, preface and Attestation, a few repairs to gutter margin of frontispiece and title, one letter of title with associated adhesion on frontispiece, a very pale occasional marginal dampstain.) Modern black morocco, edges gilt (some light wear to joints).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF POETRY WRITTEN BY A BLACK AMERICAN. 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 (176 x 112 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. (Lacking the preliminaries as often with dedication, preface and Attestation, a few repairs to gutter margin of frontispiece and title, one letter of title with associated adhesion on frontispiece, a very pale occasional marginal dampstain.) Modern black morocco, edges gilt (some light wear to joints).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF POETRY WRITTEN BY A BLACK AMERICAN. 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.