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The Hudson River [excellent woodcut of Native Americans
on the Response of Methodists to the Slave Trade Bill of 1822 in Parliament
half of which number were Indian orphan children who have been taught to read and write
1810 GOTHIC HORROR NOVEL. The Sicilian Pirate Sells Soul to Devil & Prophecies by a Wizard. Rare. Reformer Period ownership inscription on theA very rare gothic "terror" novel or "horror" novel, of the kind satirized by Jane Austen. It belongs to a school of literature which spawned enduring literature, such as Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, etc., but which was largely littered with lurid tales that mashed into a chapbook format every horror and taboo with which one might induce a reader to inquire within. . . a sort of printed menagerie or "freak show." The present work is