Tom Cringle's Log

B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a home-made dust jacket with a facsimile of the illustration on the front cover of the book. The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The lettering on the spine of the book has been noticeably rubbed. There is a scratch on the rear book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. All seven of the full page, full color illustrations are present and in clean, bright condition. "Merchant in Jamaica and Glasgow, son of Allan Scott who was a partner in Bogle and Scott. In Jamaica c. 1806-1822, where Michael Scott worked for the merchant house of Robert Bogle of Gilmorehill (q. V. ). Whose daughter Margaret he married in Glasgow in 1818. Tom Cringle's Log was published anonymously in Blackwoods 1829-1834 and then in book-form in 1834. He has an entry in the ODNB as 'Jamaica planter and writer' which says of Tom Cringle's Log and its successor The Cruise of the Midge [published in book-form in 1836]: 'Both works graphically depict the torment of slavery and the slave trade, but Scott chose not publicly to advocate social reform.' " (from Centre for the Legacies of British Slavery).…