Wheatley, Phillis " Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and...

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£16,500

Wheatley, Phillis " Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr John Wheatley of Boston, New England"  London, printed for A. Bell. Bookseller Aldgate and sold by Messrs Cox and Berry, King - Street, Boston ,engraved portrait frontis of Phillis Wheatley, titled 'Phillis Wheatley Negro Servant to Mr John Wheatley Published According to Act of Parliament Sept. 1st 1773 by Arch'd Bell, Bookseller no 8 by the Saracen's Head. Aldgate. Faint offsetting from the frontis onto title page, foxing between pages 39-52, some marks on the paper pages centre, please see imag es, no loss,
dedication to 'The Right Honourable Countess of Huntingdon the Poems are most Respectively inscribed by her much obliged, very humble and devoted servant Phillis Wheatley June 12 1773' , some staining to edges of endpapers, contemp full calf, full calf, gilt titles , faded, gilt dentelles to edges of boards 15.75 x 12 cms, a slender volume

c.f. The New Yorker,  Elizabeth Winkler,  July 30th 2020
      Poets.org - Phillis Wheatley
      East End Women's Museum, Phillis Wheatley -The First Published Black Woman Poet

In 1773, Phillis Wheatley accomplished something that no other woman of her status had done. When her book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, appeared, she became the first American slave, the first person of African descent, and only the third colonial American woman to have her work published.

Originally from Bowden Hall, Upton St Leonards, Gloucestershire

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