Title
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots : with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea
Title Variants
Alternative:
Narrative of an expedition to Surinam
By
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Blake, William, 1757-1827
Holloway, Thomas, 1748-1827
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815
Conder, Thomas, 1746 or 1747-1831
, engraver
Barlow, Inigo,
, engraver
Perry, John, active 1791-1809
, engraver
Benedetti, Michele, 1745-1810
, engraver
Smith, Anker, 1759-1819
, engraver
Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809
, bookseller
Edwards, James, 1756-1816
, bookseller
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, Printed for J. Johnson, 1796
Notes
Engraved title pages, with vignettes.
Includes errata and index in each volume.
Plates, by Stedman, engraved by William Blake and others.
Engraved title pages.
"List of subscribers names": volume 1, pages [vii]-[xiv].
Errata: last leaf in each vol.
Includes indexes.
Many plates are unsigned. Among those signed are engraved by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, Thomas Conder, Thomas Holloway, Inigo Barlow, John Perry, Michele Benedetti, and Anker Smith, all based on Stedman's watercolors,
Thirteen plates engraved and signed by Blake: v. 1, facing page 80, 110, 132, 166, 174, 200, 326; v. 2. facing page 10, 56, 74, 280, 348, 394. Additionally Blake almost certainly engraved other unsigned plates: v. 1. facing page 227; v. 2 facing page 104, 296.
Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, | 1835
English short title catalogue, | T146566
Also issued on large paper, with hand-colored plates. In that issue, the imprint of volume 1 reads "Printed by J. Johnson ...".
Stedman was a British officer in the Dutch army, sent on an expedition against the Maroons who had escaped slavery and taken up arms against the Dutch colonists in Suriname. He soon grows disgusted with his Dutch commander and the brutal treatment of slaves and rebels. He also grows increasingly sympathetic to the culture he was sent to repress, and fathers a child by an enslaved woman who he attempts to bring back to England. Stedman includes an allegorical engraving of "Europe supported by Africa & America," explaining that "we only differ in colour, but are certainly all created by the same Hand" (volume 1, page 395).
Subjects
1744-1797
,
Cancellation (Printing)
,
Description and travel
,
Early works
,
Early works to 1800
,
Engravings
,
Expeditions
,
Guiana
,
History
,
Indians of South America
,
Natural history
,
Pre-Linnean works
,
Slavery
,
South America
,
Stedman, John Gabriel,
,
Subscription lists (Publishing)
,
Suriname
,
To 1814
,
Travel
Call Number
F2410 .S81
Classification
988
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.86723
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/02011781
OCLC:
13966308
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q66547423
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