Poems on Comic, Serious and Moral Subjects by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England

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A second-edition copy of the book Poems on Comic, Serious, and Moral Subjects by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England 2nd edition, corrected, printed in London for J. French, bookseller, in 1787. The frontispiece is a roundel portrait of Phillis Wheatley in profile, attributed to Scipio Moorhead, seated at a desk, holding a quill to paper. The edge of the portrait runs off the page, costing the edge of the roundel and several letters along its edge. The bookplate features the heraldric acheivement of Earl Cornwallis: two stags supporting a coat of arms with goats, ravens, and droplets above the motto [PER ADUA STABILIS]. Book is in very good condition, with small area of discoloration along the top edge of the cover and slightly yellowed interior pages. 124 numbered pages.

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