R. B. Lewis. LIGHT AND TRUTH; COLLECTED FROM THE BIBLE AND ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY, CONTAINING THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF THE COLORED AND THE INDIAN RACE, FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE PRESENT TIME. Boston: Published by a Committee of Colored Gentlemen. Benjamin F. Roberts, printer, 1844. Hardcover in original blind-stamped cloth-covered boards, with gilt title on spine, yellow endpapers with blind stamp of binder William Ulman of Boston. 12mo; viii, 9-400pp. Name/bookplate on paste-downs of previous owners, Dr. W. Edward Farrison and Dr. Perry, both former English professors at North Carolina Central University in Durham. Sabin 40845.

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7 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.

Robert Benjamin Lewis (1802-1858) was an African American and Native American author and inventor from Maine. His book, Light and Truth, was first published in 1836 in his home state; an expanded version in four volumes was published in 1843, quickly followed by this 1844 edition of the expanded version published in Boston in one volume.

Boards with light scuffs and discoloration, dent to upper board, edgewear, and corners heavily rubbed, slight separation from text block at head; spine worn with tears and chips to cloth with significant loss to cloth at head and tail and a taped repair; interior with toning, foxing, and offsetting, with occasional small mark, minor damp stain, fraying at edges, creasing at inner margin, and underlining or marginalia in pencil; lacking front free endpaper, one leaf with 1/2-in tear at outer margin; an about good copy.