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Dover, Peter.
Between two rivers /
Peter Dover.
Canterbury [England] :
G.F.A. Press, K.I.A.D.,
1995.
[12] p., [4] leaves of plates :
ill. ;
18 cm.
Poem.
Illustrations are chiefly printed on translucent leaves.
Three of the images are taken from "Description of a Slave ship," a four page pamphlet consisting of text describing the appalling conditions endured by enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage. The engraving is purportedly of the "Brookes," a slave ship built in Liverpool in 1781 that routinely sailed between Liverpool, Fort William at Anamabou in present day Ghana, and Kingston, Jamaica. Cf. Art and emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds.
Edition limited to 25 copies.
Art and emancipation in Jamaica,
p. 299
BAC: British Art Center copy is artist's proof no. 1, signed by the artist. Bound in original quarter brown cloth and illustrated boards.
Brookes (Ship)
Artists' books
Great Britain.
Slave trade in art.
Slave trade
Great Britain.
Slave ships.
gmgpc
Artists' books
Great Britain
rbgenr
Chron.
1995.
Canterbury (England)
Imprints
Specimens
1995.
G.F.A. Press
Publisher
Description of a slave ship.
20010730RO
AC04082002