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A MAJOR WEST INDIAN DISCOVERY "A CLASSIC IN BRITISH CARIBBEAN LITERATURE" THE EDITOR'S MANUSCRIPT WITH ADDITIONS, DELETIONS & UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL FOR BRYAN EDWARDS ACCOUNT OF WAR WITH THE FRENCH IN THE WEST INDIES[YOUNG, Sir William, 2nd baronet (1749-1815)], Governor of Tobago, politician, West Indies plantation owner. [EDWARDS, Bryan(1743-1800), of the Island
of Jamaica]. English politician, Jamaica planter, and historian.
AMs entitled: Narrative of the War in the Windward Islands &c &c &c. [52] pp., 4to, mostly written on rectos, the balance blank, original reverse calf (little stained and rubbed; upper joint expertly repaired), covers blocked in blind. N.p., n.d. [London? 1801?].
An important manuscript written anonymously, but in the hand of Sir William Young, 2nd baronet, editor of Bryan Edwards, and compiler of his father's Account of the Black Charaibs in the Island of St. Vincent's… Read More
