Almost Jerusalem
Subtitle: the confessions of Nathaniel Turner, leader of the Southampton County slave insurrection of 1831
By: as dictated to Thomas R. Gray ; illustrated by D.R. Wakefield
Edition: Deluxe edition / with an extra set of proof states of all etchings and an etching plate.
Publisher: Chevington Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Goole, East Yorkshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Slaves; African American civic leaders; Southampton Insurrection, 1831; History; Slave insurrections; Artists' books; Southampton Insurrection (1831) fast (OCoLC)fst01127265 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01127265
Notes: "From a pamphlet, "The confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, VA. As fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray." Published by Thomas R. Gray in Baltimore in 1831. The etchings are drawn and printed by D.R. Wakefield. The text is set in 12 pt. Plantin. All the printing was done by the artist at his press in Goole, East Yorkshire ... The binding is by Gray Parrot. There are 50 copies printed"--Colophon.

Place of printing from colophon.

Includes 4 proof states of the frontispiece, 2 states of the 2nd plate, 6 states of the 3rd plate, 3 states of the 4th plate and 2 states of the last plate. The proofs are mounted on sheets 35 x 50 cm, 2 proofs per page, except for the 4th plate, where each state is on a separate sheet. Each proof is lettered in pencil "A/P" followed by the state number and the artist's signature.

Bound in full leather by Gray Parrot and housed in a green cloth drop-spine box..

This is copy no. 1 of 50, with artist signature.