[WILBERFORCE WILLIAM compiler] An Abstract of the Evidence D

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[WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM, compiler.] An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790 and 1791, on the Part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Title page vignette of a kneeling slave by Bewick and large folding diagram (171/2x11 inches) showing in detail the hold of a slave ship. Large 12mo, original publisher's drab blue-gray wrappers with paper spine, lettered in ink; earlier bookseller's pencil description with catalogue entry, carefully tipped to the front free end-paper; some light foxing. The folding diagram with two tiny splits at the inner folds. In all, a fine copy, entirely untrimmed, as issued. Newcastle: Society in Newcastle for Promoting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1791

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