Newman, William, The history of a pound of sugar , 1861
- Title:
- The history of a pound of sugar : rhymes and pictures.
- Published/Created:
- London : Griffith & Farran, successors to J. Newbery, St. Paul's Ch. Yd, 1861.
- Physical Description:
- 12 leaves : color illustrations ; 15 x 20 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsTP348.2 .N49 1861Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13560730
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- The book depicts the production of sugar cane in the British West Indies, with text in verse. With undertones of slavery, Black laborers are watched by a white "Planter [who] walks around With eagle glance and all controls."
Pictorial title page, depicting children looking at magic lantern projection of sugar cane plant, signed by author-illustrator WN (William Newman)--and dated in illustration: 1861.
Hand-colored wood-engraved title page and illustrations.
Printed on one side of leaf only.
Osborne Collection, page 54
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary green wrappers. - Subject Terms:
- Blacks -- West Indies, British.Magic lanterns.Sugar -- Juvenile poetry.Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Juvenile poetry.
- Form/Genre:
- Children's books -- England -- 1861.
Poems -- England -- 1861.
Wood engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1861. - Export:
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