Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846.

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Great Britain > Parliament > History
• Slave trade > United States > History
• Slaves > Emancipation > Great Britain
• Abolitionists > Great Britain
• Slave trade > Africa > History
• Slave trade > Great Britain > History
• Antislavery movements > Great Britain
• Antislavery movements > History > 18th century
• Slavery > Law and legislation > Great Britain > History
• Slavery > Africa > History
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Genre/Form

Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

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

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• formerly owned by the anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits.
• 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.

Call Number

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

OCLC

2221544

Author

Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846.

Title

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

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

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

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

Copy in Sc Rare 326.1-C (copy 2) formerly owned by the anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits. NN

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

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.

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Added Author

Hemsley, William, active 1789-1817, engraver.

Richard Taylor and Co., printer.

Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, publisher.

Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963, former owner.

Fehsenfeld, William Tarun, former owner.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

SEKH (Clarkson, T. History of the rise, progress and accomplishment. London, 1808)

Sc Rare C 16-11 (Lapidus Collection)

Pforz (Clarkson, T. History of the rise)