Cuffy the negro's doggrel description of the progress of sugar
Publisher: Printed for E. Wallis, 42, Skinner Street, Snow Hill, and 12, High Street, Pentonville
Published: 1823
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Children's poetry; Slavery; Juvenile poetry; Pictorial works; Sugar trade; Booksellers' catalogs
Notes: Publication date from watermark on leaf 5.

"Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset-Street, Fleet-Street. London": verso of title page.

Each leaf is printed on recto or verso with folio numbers appearing only on printed side.

In verse.

Housed in printed wrappers; title and advertisements framed within ornamental border.

Bookseller's advertisements: leaf [1], 2nd count, and verso of printed wrapper.

Contains 15 hand colored wood engravings depicting the labors of a slave born in Africa named Cuffy, formerly of Baltimore, now discharged in England. Includes depictions of hoeing, manuring, planting, earthing and weeding, guarding, outting down, grinding, boiling, breaking, filling and heading casks, shipping, sugar baking, a grocer's shop and a confectioner's shop.