(LITERATURE AND POETRY) WHEATLEY PHILLIS Poems on Various Su

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RARE WESTERN EDITION (LITERATURE AND POETRY.) WHEATLEY, PHILLIS. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. With Memoirs by W. A. Jackson. Engraved frontispiece after the original by Scipio Morehead. Small, squarish 8vo, original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black; beveled edges; some light rubbing to the spine and tips; delicate floral end-papers intact. Denver, CO, 1887

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A very unusual Western printing of Wheatley's poems, as far as we could determine, the first printing of her poems west of the Rockies. Robinson (page 74) makes note of the fact that Jackson repeated several erroneous facts about Phillis Wheatley published in previous editions of her work: i.e. that she was a member of the "kaffir tribe," that she was "baptized in the Old South Meeting House in 1769," and a couple more. Scarce.