The Re-Captured Negro de Sherwood, Mrs. [Mary Martha] - 1834

London and Wellington, Salop [Shropshire]: Houlston & Sons. 1833. Quarter-leather, original printed paper leather-backed boards, b&w frontis plate, pp 72. Restored, with new red leather spine and new endpapers. Pencilled gift inscription (for Jane Pierce from her affectionate father) on title page dated 25 December1851, and another, probably earlier, in ink blank endpaper. Some offsetting from the frontis title page and reverse of frontis otherwise generally clean. Boards marked and rubbed. Very good condition. Early printing of abolitionist children's book by the wife of a British naval officer who had visited Africa. It tells the story of 'Dazee', who is kidnapped from his home in Sierra Leone and is put on a slave ship. The engraved frontispiece shows Dazee being captured by a British sailor. He is recued by a misionary who returns with him to Sierra Leone. Mary Martha Sherwood was a popular children's writer and has been called "one of the most significant authors of… Leer más

Greenfield, Mass: A. Phelps, 1834. Hardcover. Good. First Greenfield edition, originally published in 1821. Quarter calf and printed paper over boards. Front fly appears to be lacking, spine back largely eroded, a good only copy. Anti-slavery story intended for a juvenile audience by Mary Martha Sherwood, the wife of a British naval officer who had visited Africa. The plot concerns Dazee, a young boy captured into slavery from Sierra Leone, but re-captured by the navy, and returned to his native land. it had printings in several locations in the American northeast, but is uncommon on the market.