Lady Nugent’s Journal of her residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805. A new and revised edition.

Original publisher’s green cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, dustjacket, 4th revised edition [1907], 8vo: maps on endpapers, frontispiece portrait Maria Nugent, xxxvi, 332pp., 19 plates, genealogical table, appendices, index persons with biographical notes, general index. Dustjacket little wear. Fine copy., Lady Nugent’s husband was Governor of Jamaica, the most important of the highly prized British sugar colonies. during a critical period of the Napoleonic wars. Her entertaining personal diary conveys very fresh impressions of life among the slave-owning colonial gentry and a distinguished American scholar has called it ” an utterly inimitable picture of planter society “. The Journal, first published by the Institute of Jamaica in 1907, has been out of print for a number of years. The twenty plates in this new edition are taken from contemporary portraits, documents and illustrations of Jamaican life and landscape.