LORD COLERIDGE'S COPY
A sketch of the laws relating to slavery in the several states of the united states of america.
Philadelphia.
Henry Longstreth, 1856.
Second edition.
8vo.
300pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed, chipping to head cap. Endpapers browned, inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP: 'J T. Coleridge / Southwick Crescent / Febry. 1863', long tear to p.297-298 - touching text without loss of sense, scattered spotting.
A revised and greatly enlarged edition of Philadelphia jurist George McDowell Stroud's (1795-1875) authoritative documentation of laws relating to slavery in the United States of America.
First published in 1827, the book is held as a primary resource for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston, 1852), and has the distinction of being the first substantial legal treatise on American slavery.
John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), nephew of the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, judge, and sometime editor of the Quarterly Review.
£ 475.00
Antiquates Ref: 26021
First published in 1827, the book is held as a primary resource for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston, 1852), and has the distinction of being the first substantial legal treatise on American slavery.
John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), nephew of the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, judge, and sometime editor of the Quarterly Review.
