America.- Kemble (Frances Anne) Journal of a Residence
America.- Kemble (Frances Anne) Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, first English edition, 32pp. publishers' catalogue at end, original cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, spine browned, [Sabin 37329], 1863 § Colonial Policy of Great Britain (The), considered with relation to her North American Provinces, and West India Possessions, first edition, title a little spotted and soiled, light water-staining to upper margin, original boards, rubbed, [Sabin 14695], 1816 § Sala (George Augustus) America Revisited, fifth edition, plates and illustrations, hinges weak, original pictorial cloth, soiled, 1885, 8vo (3)
⁂ The first is an anti-slavery work written by the British actress Fanny Kemble who had married the American heir to cotton and tobacco plantations in Georgia. Spending a winter there she wrote this journal which led to their separation and eventual divorce, although she did not publish it until after his death. The second is an anti-American work concerning the development of Canadian trade against the threat of the United States.
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America.- Kemble (Frances Anne) Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, first English edition, 32pp. publishers' catalogue at end, original cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, spine browned, [Sabin 37329], 1863 § Colonial Policy of Great Britain (The), considered with relation to her North American Provinces, and West India Possessions, first edition, title a little spotted and soiled, light water-staining to upper margin, original boards, rubbed, [Sabin 14695], 1816 § Sala (George Augustus) America Revisited, fifth edition, plates and illustrations, hinges weak, original pictorial cloth, soiled, 1885, 8vo (3)
⁂ The first is an anti-slavery work written by the British actress Fanny Kemble who had married the American heir to cotton and tobacco plantations in Georgia. Spending a winter there she wrote this journal which led to their separation and eventual divorce, although she did not publish it until after his death. The second is an anti-American work concerning the development of Canadian trade against the threat of the United States.
