Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--JUVENILE.) SHERWOOD, MARY MARTHA [BUTT]. Dazee, or the Recaptured Negro. By Mrs. Sherwood. Woodcut frontispiece and title-page vignette, plus two additional cuts at the end. 48, [1] pp. Tall 12mo, original printed salmon wrappers, sewn; early ownership signatures on title-page; small split at the bottom of the spine. Newburyport: Printed by W. & J. Gilman, 1822

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second edition, preceded by an 1821 Boston edition. Contains two poems at the end p. [46]-[48], "the Negro's Complaint," and "The Negro boy who was sold for a watch."