Journal of a Residence among the Negroes In the West Indies

by Mathew Lewis

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viii, 184pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters modern polished brown polished calf and marbled boards. Fine. Item #318273 Journals of Monk Lewis' two residences in Jamaica, in 1815-1816 and in 1817. Printed from the manuscript. The author died at sea while returning to England in 1818. It is his last book and has some dozen unpublished poems.Coleridge called it ... the most unaffected book of travels or touring I have read of late years

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