Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
An abstract of the evidence delivered before a select Committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791 on the petitioners for the abolition of the slave-trade.
Call Number
HT1162 .A5
150.5
EX Lapidus 4.22
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x346d491w
Publisher
London : Printed by James Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street, 1791.
Language
English
Date Created
1791
Extent
xxvi, 155, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Acquired 11/24/70 from Henry Stevens Son & Stiles.
Princeton copy 1 Inscribed on front cover: "John Dixon N 16 As soon as this book is read return it again to Jno. Dixon." Inscribed on front pastedown: "John Dixon Cockfield 1791". Inscribed on title page: "John Dixon 1791. Edward Pease, Darlington 1868. Bot: at late Jn Dixon ... sale." Bookplate of P. W. Donner.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959 2010
References
Sabin 81745.
ESTC T143402
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Signatures: a-c⁴ d, A-T⁴ U².
"An alphabetical list of the names of the witnesses examined by the select committee of the House of Commons ... for the abolition of the slave-trade." p. [xvii]-xxvi.

Discovery Information

Subject
Brooks (Slave ship)
Slave trade—Great Britain
Abolitionists—Great Britain
Library copies .

Physical Characteristics

File Count
198

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/00b586e7-86f7-4fd4-9e0e-4264d5627cfb/manifest