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  "The Most Extensive Collection of Nineteenth-Century Slave Narratives and Biographies": Rare First Edition, Deluxe Issue of Wilson Armistead's A Tribute For The Negro

  ARMISTEAD, Wilson.

  A Tribute For The Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.

  Manchester: William Irwin [and London, Charles Gilpin; New York, William Harned; Philadelphia, H. Longstreth and G. W. Taylor], 1848.

  First edition, deluxe issue of Armistead's best known work, containing possibly the most extensive collection of nineteenth-century slave narratives and biographies. Octavo, original publisher's deluxe plum morocco gilt, flat spine decorated gilt, with a vignette depicting a pleading slave and the legend "Am I not a man and a brother" to the front board, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece and 11 plates. Goldsmiths' 35477; Hogg 1491. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An excellent example of this rarity, easily one of the nicest extant.

  Price: $12,000.00     Item Number: 151977

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