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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.
Author
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London, Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-street, Boston, 1773.
Description
v, [1] p., 1 ., [9]-124, [4] p. front. (port.) 17.1 cm.
Details
Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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Rare books genre
Authentication (Publishing)
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England
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London
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1773
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Notes
First edition; cf. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (Philadelphia: Library Co.), no. 11111; Negro history, 1553-1903 (Philadelphia. Library Co.), no. 194; and The Negro in the United States, by Dorothy B. Porter, no. 1284.
Frontispiece is an engraved port. of the author.
"Published ... Septr. 1st, 1773 by Archd. Bell, bookseller no. 8 near the Saracens Head Aldgate."--Front.
Signatures: [A]-Q⁴.
Ex 3984.8.372 copy: 1st edition, second state (B), with second state (B) portrait frontis. Wheatley's signature on verso of title-page
ExHolden PS866 .W5 1773 copy: 2nd edition with second state (B) portrait frontis.
RHT American 316 copy: 1st edition, first state (A), with first state (A) portrait frontis.
Lapidus 3.30 copy: 1st edition, first state (A), with first state (A) portrait frontis.
Binding note
ExHolden PS866 .W5 1773 copy: 19th cent full calf, gilt, marbled endpapers, with stamp on front free endpaper 'Bound by W. Pratt for J.King.'
Provenance
RHT American 316 copy: Inscribed on front free endpaper 'Harriot Cayton.'
Source acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959 2010
References
ESTC T153734
Stoddard & Whitesell, A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 through 1820, 236 / 237
OCLC
916479
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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley, negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.
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