The Disobedient son, and cruel husband. : Being a full and true account of one Mr. John James, a gentleman's son in Wiltshire, whose father left him an estate of twenty hundred pounds a year, and married a lady of great fortune in the same place; but being reduced to poverty and want with riotous living, he killed his wife and children, and afterwards hanged his mother on a tree in the orchard, with the last dying words of this wretch, who was hanged before his mother's door. : To which are added, The wild rover and The humours of whiskey.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47767.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Poetry.

Murder.

Religious poetry.

Genre:

Poems -- 1796.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

8 pages ; (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Dublin [that is, Philadelphia?]: : Printed by W. Jones ..., January, 1796.

Notes:

In verse.

Bristol and Shipton & Mooney supply Philadelphia as actual place of publication without explanation. While there was a William Jones who was a bookseller and printer in Philadelphia in 1796, there was also a William Jones (fl. 1789-1802) active as a bookseller and printer in Dublin at this time.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47767).

Cited in:

Bristol B9528

Shipton & Mooney 47767

OCLC:

55813882