A Poem, spoken extempore, by a young lady [electronic resource] : on hearing the guns firing and bells chiming on account of the great and glorious acquisition of their Excellencies Gen. Washington and the C. de Grasse, by the surrender of York-Town
- Bib ID:
- 3376317
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/44247
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- Description:
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- [Boston] : Printed by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump.--At the same place may be had, Russell's American almanac, and Bickerstaff's Boston do., [1781]
- 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (relief cuts) ; 35 x 21 cm.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 44247.
- Notes:
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- Verse in twenty-eight lines, printed on left half of sheet beneath relief cut; first line: Honor commands great Washington I sing.
- Right half of sheet contains second poem, in fifty-six lines, entitled: His Lordship humbled: or, Cornwallis's lamentation. With a relief cut flanking title. First line: Great Mars, thou god of battles won.
- Dated [1782] by Bristol, but more likely printed soon after Cornwallis' surrender in October 1781. The advertisement for almanacs in the imprint also suggests that the sheet was issued late in 1781.
- Printed area measures 32.1 x 18.7 cm.
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
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- Bristol B5572
- Shipton & Mooney 44247
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 44247). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
- Subject:
- Place:
- United States Massachusetts Boston.
- Other authors/contributors:
- Young lady
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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