London. Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme. 1806. pp. xv, (i), 104. 8vo. Modern quarter calf, marbled boards. No half title. The work contains the poem The Negro to His Wife - In the Introduction to this poem Frost references the 'beautiful Poem of the Dying Negro' ( an abolitionist poem first published in 1773 written by John Bicknell and Thomas Day). 'In the subsequent verses, I have pictured to myself that, on the moment of departure, he has been restored to his house, and in consequence write the following lines.' The Dying Negro is cited in Ragatz p. 496 and Hogg 4175. The Library Hub lists 2 copies of The Harper only - Oxford and the British Library. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1807, the Abolition of Slavery Act was not passed until 1833.

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