West India scenery : with illustrations of Negro character, the process of making sugar, &c. from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad / by R. Bridgens.

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2026552

Description

Title: West India scenery : with illustrations of Negro character, the process of making sugar, &c. from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad / by R. Bridgens.
Creator: Bridgens, Richard
Cooper, T. S
Day & Haghe
Ducôté, A., fl. 1829-1832
Published / Created: 1836
Publication Place: London :
Publisher: Published for the proprietor by Robert Jennings & Co.,
Description: Issued in two parts (both described as Part 1) in wrappers. Title page and list of plates in one part; added illustrated title page in other part.
Original wrappers. Bookplate of Paul Mellon.
Some plates are lithographs by R. Bridgens, printed by A. Ducôté, Ducôté & Stephens, and Day and Haghe. Other plates drawn on stone by T.S. Cooper from sketches by R. Bridgens, printed by Ducôte & Stephens.
Volume with title page described as part I, volume with engraved title page and preface described as part II.
Extent: 2 v. (27 leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.) ; 39 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: 2003 Folio 16

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: mixed material
Genre: Historiography
Illustrations
Lithographs
Resource Type: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic): Trinidad--Description and travel
West Indies--Description and travel
West Indies--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic): Sugar growing--West Indies

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 6169555
Object ID (OID): 2026552