A dialogue between Death, the Soul, Body, World and Jesus Christ. / Composed by Edmond [i.e., Edmund] Weld, formerly of Harvard-College, who removing from hence to Ireland, became a preacher of the gospel there, who upon the meditation of his death (which was so finished the 2d of March, 1668) made this following poem, which was sent hither by his wife, to his relations here...

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Weld, Edmund, 1631-1668.

Contributor:

Howe, John.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45203.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Poetry.

Jesus Christ.

Religion.

Death--Poetry.

Death.

Religion--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Poems -- 1787.

Dialogues.

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 32 x 33 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by E. Russell, next Liberty-Pole, for John Howe, of Ringe, (New-Hampshire.), [1787]

Notes:

Dialogue in verse; first line, spoken by Death: Ho, ho prepare to go with me.

Several earlier editions of this poem, with varying titles, were printed in America between 1720 and 1763. For the earliest recorded edition, cf. Bristol B575.

Advertisement for "Bickerstaff's genuine Boston almanack for 1788" following imprint suggests a printing date late in 1787.

Printed area, in four columns with a relief cut (Reilly 1189) at head of first column, measures 28.9 x 31.1 cm.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45203).

Cited in:

Bristol B6637

Shipton & Mooney 45203

OCLC:

55815267