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Additional authors

1. Hemsley, William, active 1789-1817
2. Richard Taylor and Co., printer.
3. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, publisher.

Description

1. 2 volumes : illustrations, plates (some folded); 23 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. Great Britain > Parliament > History
2. Slave trade > United States > History
3. Slaves > Emancipation > Great Britain
4. Abolitionists > Great Britain
5. Slave trade > Africa > History
6. Slave trade > Great Britain > History
7. Antislavery movements > Great Britain
8. Antislavery movements > History > 18th century
9. Slavery > Law and legislation > Great Britain > History
10. Slavery > Africa > History
11. Bookplates (Provenance)

Genre/Form

1. Bookplates (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.1-C (Clarkson, T. The history of the rise. 1808)

Note

1. Two of the three plates signed "Hemsley," i.e., William Hemsley.

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
2. formerly owned by the anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits.
3. the gift of Sidney Lapidus. In v. 2 : in ink, on p. 114, "four hundred & fifty four." Rebound in quarter blue leather with blue cloth boards.

Author

1. Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846.

Title

1. The history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade by the British parliament / by Thomas Clarkson, M.A.

Publisher

1. London : Printed by R. Taylor and Co., Shoe-Lane, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1808.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.1-C (copy 1) (accession nos. B389725-B389725A) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
2. Copy in Sc Rare 326.1-C (copy 2) formerly owned by the anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits. NN
3. Copy in Sc Rare C 16-11 (Lapidus Collection) the gift of Sidney Lapidus. In v. 2 : in ink, on p. 114, "four hundred & fifty four." Rebound in quarter blue leather with blue cloth boards.

Local note

1. Pforzheimer copy: With the early ink ownership signature of "Tho.s Barnard Grimsby" on the title pages; also the later 19th century ownership signatures of "Joshua Plaskitt" on the title pages, and a pencil note on the front paste-down of volume 1 signed "J. P." -- With the 20th century bookplates of William Tarun Fehsenfeld of Baltimore. -- Contemporary dark red half calf, rebacked, over marbled boards, black morocco spine labels, gilts spine titling ("Clarkson on the Abolition of the Slave Trade") and decoration.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Access to the Pforzheimer Collection
3. Request Access to Special Collections Material
4. Full text available via HathiTrust--v. 1
5. Full text available via HathiTrust--v. 2

Added author

1. Hemsley, William, active 1789-1817, engraver.
2. Richard Taylor and Co., printer.
3. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, publisher.
4. Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.
5. Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963, former owner.
6. Fehsenfeld, William Tarun, former owner.
7. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research call number

1. SEKH (Clarkson, T. History of the rise, progress and accomplishment. London, 1808)
2. Sc Rare C 16-11 (Lapidus Collection)
3. Pforz (Clarkson, T. History of the rise)