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An Elegiac poem, composed on the never-to-be-forgotten terrible and bloody battle fought at an intrenchment on Bunker-Hill ...
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42809.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.
- Warren, Joseph.
- Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Poetry.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Broadsides.
- Acrostics.
- Poems -- 1775.
- Elegies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (relief cuts)
- Place of Publication:
- Salem [Mass.]: N.E. : Printed and sold by E. Russell, next to John Turner, Esq; in the Main-Street., 1775.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Verse of 160 lines; first line: Adieu to wanton songs and foolish joys.
- Preceded by prose account and followed by: An Acrostic on the late Major-General Warren.
- Relief cut of sixty coffins at head (Reilly 1221); illustrating the acrostic are relief cuts of a skull and crossbone (not in Reilly) and a coffin bearing the initials JW (Reilly 1209); printed area measures 47.8 x 34.0 cm.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 42809).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B3969
- Shipton and Mooney 42809
- Contains:
- Acrostic on the late Major-General Warren.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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