About this title: Every man of humanity must wish that slavery, even in its best and most mitigated form, had never found a legal sanction, and must regret that its system is now so incorporated with the welfare of Great Britain as well as of Jamaica, as to make its extirpation an absolute impossibilitiy, without the certainty of producing worse mischiefs than the one which we annihilate. Matthew Lewis is best remembered as the author of the sensational Gothic novel The Monk (1796). He was also a slave-owner, inheriting two large plantations and visiting Jamaica twice in 1815-16 and 1817-18, primarily to ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780192832610ISBN:0192832611
Description: Very Good. 0192832611 light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages light discoloration around edges//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Binding: Paperbook
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date Published: 1834
ISBN-13:9781402189449ISBN:1402189443
Description: New in New jacket. This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by John Murray in London, 1834. This book is in English. This book contains 414 pages. Print on demand edition. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780199549658ISBN:0199549656
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 196x129 mm. (347) matthew lewis is best remembered as the author of the sensational gothic novel the monk (1796). he was also a slave-owner, inheriting two large plantations and visiting jamaica twice in 1815-16 and 1817-18. his anecdotal journal records a colonial encounter, between slave-holder and slaves, at a significant historical moment. this unique edition provides full contextual background and includes lewis's verse narrative the isle of devils as well as a telling ... read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00416 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback) read more
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00416 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Edition: REPRINT Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Negro Universities Press, New York, NY
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780837118451ISBN:083711845X
Description: Fine- No Dust Jacket 408 pages Endpaper hinges browned, o.w. clean, tight & bright. NO ink names, bookplates etc. Rest of book in fine like new condition. ISBN 083711845X. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Press Reprint
Date Published: 1970-01-10
ISBN-13:9780837118451ISBN:083711845X
Description: Good. No dust jacket, brown cloth cover with gold lettering on spine. Text unmarked, good solid binding. *Ships Next Business day* read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date Published: 1834
Description: 8vo, 408 pages ex-library, rebound in a solid but amateur binding of cloth probably over the original binding, hinges reinforced with cloth tape, pages very lightly browned, title page and 6 other pages lightly foxed, overall, good. -Ragatz: A Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, 1763-1834, pages 227-228. "This work comprises the journals of two residences in Jamaica in 1815-16 and in 1817. It is an interesting document dealing with the state of the island after the abolition of ... read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date Published: 1834
Description: First edition. 408pp. Scattered foxing, especially to the first and last few leaves, a couple of tiny tears to the spinal extremities, else an especially fine copy in original cloth, and scarce thus. Posthumously published journal by "Monk" Lewis, author of the "scandalous, " now-classic gothic horror novel The Monk. Lewis, a contemporary and associate of Byron, the Shelleys and Polidori, was a sensational writer of morbid, ghostly and sensual tales, the arch-priest of gothic romance, whose ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780199549658ISBN:0199549656
Description: New. Matthew Lewis is best remembered as the author of the sensational Gothic novel The Monk. He was also a slave-owner, inheriting two large plantations and making two visits to Jamaica to investigate the living and working conditions of his slaves. read more
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