"Recollection" in The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1772

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An edition of The Annual Register published in 1773 by James Dodsley of Pall Mall, London. Pages 214 and 215 feature the poem "Recollection" by Phillis Wheatley, described here as "a young African Negro Woman, at Boston in New-England; who did not quit her own country till she was ten years old, and has not been above eight in Boston." Cover is leather on cardboard; spine has been reattached to the text block. Book has water damage on covers and pages, and some pages are warped or discolored from mold.

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