BRIDGENS (Richard) West India Scenery with illustrations of Negro character, the process of making sugar, &c. from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in the island of Trinidad. London, R. Jennings & Co (1836) 1st ed. 27 lithograph plates (4 hand-coloured), each plate with an explanatory leaf of text. Small folio. Fine in morocco-backed straight grained boards, vellum tips. A dramatic illustrated record of life in Trinidad at the beginning of the apprenticeship system. Fine images of the sugar industry: planting, cutting, carrying and boiling the sugar cane. An important and rare work.