Ignatius Sancho. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life. Lo...

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First Single-Volume Edition of Sancho's Letters

Ignatius Sancho. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life. London: J. Nichols, 1784.

Third edition. Octavo. xiv, 393 pages.

Contemporary full calf. Front board and free endpaper detached. Some loss to the upper corner of title page. Rear hinge and joint broken, board tentatively attached by two binding cords. Backstrip cracked up the center, with some chipping to the leather. Internally sound. Good.

The third edition was the first appearance of Sancho's letters in a single volume. Previously, the letters were numbered within each volume (I-LXV; I-XCII); in the third edition, the numbers run consecutively (I-CLVIII). This seeming discrepancy of an additional letter to the third edition is explained by noting that a letter not assigned a number from the previous two editions was finally numbered correctly. From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.

Blockson 101, 11. Sabin, 76310.