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Journal of a West India proprietor : kept during a residence in the island of Jamaica

Title: Journal of a West India proprietor : kept during a residence in the island of Jamaica / by the late Matthew Gregory Lewis, Esq. M.P. author of "The monk," "The castle spectre," "Tales of wonder," &c.
Author: Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818.
Publication: London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, MDCCCXXXIV. [1834]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc Rare 917.292-L (Lewis, M. G. Journal of a West-India proprietor)	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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[6], 408 p.; 23 cm.

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Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Note

With a half-title.
"London: Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square."--verso of half-title page; and colophon, p. 408.
"The following Journals of two residences in Jamaica, in 1815-16, and in 1817, are now printed from the MS. of Mr. Lewis; whom died at sea, on the voyage homewards from the West Indies, in the year 1818."--Advertisement, p. [5], 1st count.

Indexed In (note)

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding half-title page "W.H. Cooper." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 917.292-L (Lewis, M. G. Journal of a West-India proprietor)

LCCN

02012856

OCLC

2422453
NYPGR2422453-B

Author

Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818.

Title

Journal of a West India proprietor : kept during a residence in the island of Jamaica / by the late Matthew Gregory Lewis, Esq. M.P. author of "The monk," "The castle spectre," "Tales of wonder," &c.

Imprint

London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, MDCCCXXXIV. [1834]

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 5836

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 917.292-L (accession no. B389106) inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding half-title page "W.H. Cooper." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Murray, John, 1778-1843, publisher.

Spottiswoode, Andrew, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 917.292-L (Lewis, M. G. Journal of a West-India proprietor)

HRC (Lewis, M. G. Journal of a West-India proprietor)

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