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Buy this book on-line JOHN HARRIS. [B.C.Bloomfield] : A Century of EmancipationJ.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1933
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvi, 287pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's green top edge stain. With a frontispiece engraving of Thomas Fowell Buxton and another engraved plate of William Wilberforce. Some fading to the cloth and a touch of very occasional spotting. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but slightly toned and dust marked, with several tiny areas of loss from the spine panel ends. An important volume on the history and abolishment of slavery, penned by Sir John Harris to celebrate the centenary of abolition in Great Britain. A copy with an interesting provenance: an inked presentation inscription to the front free endpaper notes that it was presented to Barry Cambray Bloomfield, librarian and the bibliographer of Philip Larkin and W.H.Auden, by the Anti-Slavery Society in recognition of his services to the Society in cataloguing their library.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of JOHN HARRIS. [B.C.Bloomfield] : A Century of Emancipation. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, atlases, incunabula, livres illustrées and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |