The Southampton Insurrection

[Nat Turner's Rebellion]

by William Sidney Drewry 

First edition.  Washington DC:  The Neale Company, 1900  

Hardback is overall in GOOD+ condition.

• Blue covers with gilt insignia stamped on top board. 
• Boards show some wear, smudges, heavy edgewear.  Corners are worn, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has gilt text dimmed and is darkened with chipped, frayed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure.  
• Patterned pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, owner's label inside front cover.  See photos. 
• Frontispiece is present.
• Foldout map is present.
• Illustrations are clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some smudges, a closed tear at lower edge of Preface page, some creased corners.  See photos.  
• Inside pages have scattered marginalia. 
• Text block edges are foxed. 
• PS2026.0430

201 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches

First edition.  Publisher's blue cloth with "Sic Semper Tyrannis" insignia in gilt to top board.  All plates present as called for: a frontispiece, folding map, 36 plates containing 39 images.  Boards show wear at edges and corners, spine is slant with crushed ends.  Binding is sound.  Interior is gently toned, with some marginalia in pencil.  Condition is overall Good Plus, a working copy.

This is the classic work on Nat Turner's Rebellion, a revolt of slaves in Southampton County Virginia in 1831.  The author, William Sidney Drewry (1870-1948), wrote this work as a Ph.D dissertation at Johns Hopkins University.  With an index and list of persons interviewed by Drewry.

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