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LETTERS OF THE LATE IGNATIUS SANCHO, AN AFRICAN (FIRST EDITION, 1873, 2 VOLS.) by Ignatius Sancho
London: J. Nichols, 1783
12mo, xvi + 204pp, 224pp. Original full leather hardcover bindings, with gilt lettering to spines. Frontispiece of Sancho in Vol. 1, and frontispiece in Vol. 2, both engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.
While his correspondence often included domestic issues, it also commented on the political and literary life in 18th-century Britain. One of his more famous series of letters includes his eye-witness accounts of the Gordon Riots in June 1780. In 1782 Frances Crewe, a correspondent of Sancho, arranged for 160 of his letters to be published in the form of two volumes entitled The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. The book sold very well, with more than 2,000 subscribing to it. Joseph Jekyll provided a memoir of Sancho for the first edition, and four more editions had been issued by 1803. (wikipedia.com)
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