The Day-Star of the World's Freedom; or, The British Lion Trampling on the Neck of Slavery: An Ebenezer for the First Day of August, 1834
first edition
1834 · London
by MORISON, John
London: F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1834. Book. 24mo, orig. blue-green patterned cloth, paper label. Pp. 96. Spine rubbed at extremities; a very good copy. First edition of an oration celebrating the abolition of slavery in England. "The substance of this little volume was delivered by the Author, at Ranelagh Chapel, before the associated inisters and churches in the Chelsea and Pimlico district of the metropolis." Touches on the history of the movement, the work of Sharp, Wilberforce, and Clarkson, the hopes for abolition in America, etc. Not in NSTC, which lists only the 3rd edition recorded in the BLC; not in OCLC.. (Inventory #: 1215)