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130 0 $aShort history of Barbados, from its first discovery and settlement, to the end of the year 1767.
245 12 $aA short history of Barbados, from its first discovery and settlement, to the present time.
246 1 $iHalf-title :$aShort history of Barbados.
250 $aA new edition, corrected and enlarged.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall,$cMDCCLXVIII. [1768]
300 $a[2], xiii, [1], 132 p. ;$c19 cm. (8vo)
500 $aPublished anonymously but attributed to either Henry Frere or George Frere.
500 $aSuggested attribution to an H. Frere by Sabin but indexed under Barbados.
500 $aRagatz attributes the work to H. Frere.
500 $aCundall attributed the work to George Frere.
500 $aJerome Handler, in his Guide to source material for the study of Barbados history, points out that authorities going back to 1808 [i.e. John Poyer] attribute this work to H. Frere or Henry Frere, who was a member of the council and its president from 1790-1793. The name of George Frere apparently first appeared in 1909 in Frank Cundall's Bibliography of the West Indies. Cf. Adams.
500 $aSchomburgk, Hist. of Barbados, p. vii, refers to the author simply by his surname, remarking that he seems merely to have copied from Oldmixon and the "Memoirs of the first settlement of the island of Barbados," 1743.
500 $a"There is little that the author can call his own. The greater part of it is a palpable plagiarism, and the adoption is rendered less valuable by the mutilated and imperfect state in which it was sent into the world." Cf. Hist. of the Barbados / by John Poyer, 1808, p. x.
500 $aOn the Frere family in the Barbados see the memoir of John Hookham Frere prefixed to the latters works, London, 1872, v. 1, p. xi.
500 $aFirst edition printed London, 1768 under title: A short history of Barbados, from its first discovery and settlement, to the end of the year 1767.
500 $aPages xii-xiii are a short reply to Remarks upon a book, intitled A short history of Barbados, in which the partial and unfair representations of the author upon the subjects of his history in general, and upon that of the demand of privileges in particular, are detected and exposed / by John Gay Alleyne, first printed [Bridgetown?] Barbados, 1768.
500 $a"A list of the commanders in chief of Barbados from its first settlement": p. 131-132.
500 $aSignatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-I⁸ (A1, A7 versos blank) K² (-K2)
510 4 $aSabin$c3289.
510 4 $aCundall, F. West Indies,$c35.
510 4 $aAdams, T.R. Amer. controversy,$c68-9b.
510 4 $aEnglish short title catalogue$cT92935.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf.
590 $aProvenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: H. Wrangham: ms. autograph on title page.
600 10 $aAlleyne, John Gay,$d1724-1801.$tRemarks upon a book, intitled, A short history of Barbados.
651 0 $aBarbados$xHistory.
651 0 $aBarbados$xPolitics and government.
653 $aImprint 1768.
700 1 $aFrere, George.
700 1 $aFrere, Henry.
700 1 $aWrangham, H.$4fmo$5RIBRL.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
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