Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

Contributor:

Bell, Archibald, 1755-1854 (publisher); Cox & Berry (bookseller)

Name:

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784

Date:

1773

Language:

English

Publisher:

printed for A. Bell ...; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry ..

Subject:

Religious poetry, American

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

v pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 10-124 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait; 18 cm (4to)

Related Place:

England -- London.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Q⁴.; 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."--Frontispiece.; With a mixture of horizontal and vertical chain lines, and with two final contents leaves.; Advertisements: [1] p. at end. ESTC describes two states: one variant begins: "Lately published in 2 vols. twelves, ... "; a variant begins: "Lately published, (price 5s. sewed.)".; Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: Q gathering misbound as follows: Q1, Q3, Q4, Q2.; Culture Class Collection copy advertisement on p. [1] at end begins: "Lately published in 2 vols. twelves, ... ."

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, AC7 W5602 773p

Collection:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)