Books and Manuscripts

Sammelband of 4 Pamphlets Relating to the Sugar Trade
London, 1823. Four works in one volumes. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, extremities rubbed, corners worn, joints rubbed, head of spine worn; all edges trimmed; old ownership ink stamp ("Lawes Agricultural Trust") on front paste-down; scattered light foxing to text. Comprising:

1. (Larpemnt, Sir George). On Protection to West-India Sugar. London: Printed for J. Richardson and J. Hatchard, 1823. 159 pp. Sabin 39068

2. (Macaulay, Zachariah). East and West India Sugar; or, a Refutation of the Claims of the West India Colonists to a Protecting Duty on East India Sugar. London: Printed for Lupton Relfe, and Hatchard and Son, 1823. (ii), viii, 128 pp.; with half-title. Sabin 42951

3. (Macaulay, Zachariah). A Letter to William W. Whitmore, Esq. MP. Pointing out some of the Erroneous Statements Contained in a Pamphlet by Joseph Marryat, Esq. M.P. Entitled “A Reply to the Arguments Contained in Various Publications, Recommending an Equalization of the Duties on East and West India Sugars.” London: Printed for Lupton Relfe, and Hatchard and Son, 1823. (ii), 38 pp. Sabin 42953

4. Marryat, Joseph. A Reply to the Arguments Contained in Various Publications, Recommending an Equalization of the Duties on East & West Indian Sugar. London: Printed for J.M. Richardson and Ridgways, 1823. Second edition. 111 pp.; with half-title. Sabin 44708

A collection of four pamphlets regarding the West Indian sugar trade and the debate of over equalization--an abolitionist argument that sugar growers in the East Indies were at a disadvantage to their West Indian counter-parts due to the latter's use of slave labor.