Details

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Authentication (Publishing)—England—London—1773 [Browse]

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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