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The black prince : a true story : being an account of the life and death of Naimbanna, an African king's son, who arrived in England in the year 1791, and set sail on his return in June, 1793.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR4839.K4 S3 1798
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cheap repository.
- Cheap repository tracts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naimbana, -1793.
- Naimbana.
- Christian life--Early works to 1800.
- Christian life.
- Slave trade--Sierra Leone--Early works to 1800.
- Slave trade.
- Temne (African people)--Kings and rulers--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Temne (African people).
- Koya Chiefdom (Sierra Leone)--Kings and rulers--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Koya Chiefdom (Sierra Leone).
- Chapbooks, English--Specimens--Early works to 1800.
- Chapbooks, English.
- Genre:
- Chapbooks.
- Penn Provenance:
- Eyre, Francisca Alicia Bootle, -1810 (former owner) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)
- Boyce, G. P. (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 pages ; 19 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- h.ay ofch ."n? thit (3) 1800 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Sold by Evans and Co. (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 41 and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield, and J. Hatchard, No. 173, Piccadilly, London ; [Bath] : By S. Hazard, Bath : And by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [approximately 1800?]
- Notes:
- "Evans became printers to the Cheap Repository in December 1797; the form J. Evans and Co. was used from 1799. Hatchard was at 173 Piccadilly until July 1801; this story did not appear in the 1798 collected edition of Cheap Repository shorter tracts, but was added in the 1799 edition."--English short title catalogue N15313.
- "Entered at Stationers Hall." appears in square brackets at foot of title leaf.
- Signatures: [A]⁸.
- Horizontal chain lines.
- Woodcut title illustration signed: Lee [i.e. John Lee; see English short title catalogue N15313].
- Second line of imprint ends: "and Religious".
- "Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price one penny, or 4s. 6d. per hundred-2s. 6d for 50.-1s. 6d. for 25."--Title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy has manuscript bibliographical note in pencil signed "G.P. Boyce" on front pastedown.
- Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Dean Cooke with assistance from the Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.
- Kislak Center copy has early manuscript ownership inscription ("This book belongs to Mrs Eyre of Grove Hall") of Francisca Alicia Eyre (née Bootle; d. 1810), wife of Anthony Hardolph Eyre (1757-1836) on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 1534426880
- Bound With:
- Kislak Center copy bound with: Satan's device, or, The devil no changeling.
- Online:
- The Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund Home Page
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