Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans

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A second edition of Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans published by Light & Horton in Boston, Massachusetts. Frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley, attributed to Scipio Moorhead, depicts her in profile facing proper right seated at a desk holding a quill to paper in her right hand. Her left hand is raised to her face in thought. Book has cloth binding and a textblock of purple faded to orange. There are losses at the head and tail of the spine, and the top half of the back cover shows water spots. The green label on the front cover is abraded and worn. Several pages towards front of book have spots on the top half of the page. 114 numbered pages.

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