West India Scenery with illustrations of Negro character, the process of making sugar, &c. from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in the island of Trinidad.
Book Description
BRIDGENS (Richard)
West India Scenery with illustrations of Negro character, the process of making sugar, &c. from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in the island of Trinidad.
London, R. Jennings & Co (1836)
1st ed. 27 lithograph plates (4 hand-coloured), each plate with an explanatory leaf of text. Small folio. Fine in morocco-backed straight grained boards, vellum tips.
A dramatic illustrated record of life in Trinidad at the beginning of the apprenticeship system. Fine images of the sugar industry: planting, cutting, carrying and boiling the sugar cane. An important and rare work.
Author
BRIDGENS (Richard)
Date
1836
Publisher
London, R. Jennings & Co
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