Portrait miniature of James Mongomery.1771- 1854. (author).+ Montgomery's book -World before the flood- ,a poem in ten cantors.

Original hand-coloured portrait miniature (painter not known) of James Mongomery on cardboard, split to centre of image. Original glass. Hand written in a contemporary hand, title on back of image -James Mongomery esq author of the World before the Flood. Pp 294. Original full calf gilt. James Montgomery was a Scottish-born poet, hymn writer and editor. He was concerned with humanitarian causes such as the abolition of slavery and of exploitation of child chimney sweeps. He wrote a poem addressing the French annexation of Switzerland and quickly went through two editions. When it was denounced the following year in the conservative Edinburgh Review as a poem that would be speedily forgotten, Lord Byron came to its defence in the satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.The poet's philanthropic enthusiasm and to his own touching associations with the West Indies. The four-part poem appeared in 1809 as -The West Indies-.