Memoirs of the Life and Travels of the Late Charles MacPherson, Esq., in Asia, Africa, and America . .
by [MACNEILL, HECTOR]
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- Condition
- Text a bit foxed and smudged; very good copy.
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Vernor and Hood, 1800, 1800. First edition. ESTC T96380; NCBEL II, 2028; not in Garside and Schöwerling. Text a bit foxed and smudged; very good copy.. 8vo, modern brown half morocco, marbled paper boards, black label, gilt lettering, untrimmed. With half-title. An autobiographical novel by Scottish poet Hector MacNeill (1746-1818) who was sent to the West Indies as a young man in hopes that he would find a vocation as a sailor, but he eventually returned to Scotland and authorship. These memoirs follow Charles MacPherson to the West Indies in his quest for employment and in the process he comments at length on the customs of the islands and in particular "the nature, treatment and possible improvement of the negro in the British and French West India Islands."
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- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26025
- Title
- Memoirs of the Life and Travels of the Late Charles MacPherson, Esq., in Asia, Africa, and America . .
- Author
- [MACNEILL, HECTOR]
- Format/Binding
- ESTC T96380; NCBEL II, 2028; not in Garside and Schöwerling
- Book Condition
- Used - Text a bit foxed and smudged; very good copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Vernor and Hood, 1800
- Date Published
- 1800
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...