Meditations and contemplations : in two volumes. Containing. Vol. I. Meditations among the tombs. Reflections on a flower-garden; and, A descant upon creation. Vol. II. Contemplations on the night. Contemplations on the starry heavens; and, A winter-piece. / By James Hervey, A.B. late of Lincoln-College, Oxford. ; Volume I[-II].

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Hervey, James, 1714-1758.

Contributor:

Browne, Moses, 1704-1787.

Duick, J. (John)

R. T., dedicatee.

Orchard, Paul, dedicatee.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43471.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devotional literature.

Genre:

Poems -- 1778.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 200, xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 198 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (18mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Edition:

The eighth edition.

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : America: Boston: Printed for, and sold by Martha Leverett, in Cornhill, 1778.

Notes:

Vol. 1 dedicated to Miss R.T.; v. 2 dedicated to Paul Orchard.

Edition statement transposed; precedes "Volume I." on title page.

Reissue of the sheets of the 1750 edition printed by Daniel Fowle and Daniel Gookin (Evans 6516), gathering A only having been reset.

Vol. 2 has imprint: Boston: New-England, Printed and sold by Daniel Fowle in Queen Street, and by Daniel Gookin in Marlborough-Street. 1750.

Vol. 1 contains poems addressed to Hervey by Moses Browne, John Duick and "a physician."

Booksellers' advertisements, v. 2, p. [199-200].

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43471).

Cited in:

Bristol B4699

Shipton & Mooney 43471

OCLC:

55824518