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