A poem, descriptive of the terrible fire, which made such shocking devastation in Boston, on Friday evening the twenty-first of April, 1787 : in which were consumed one house of worship, of which the Reverend Ebenezer Wight was pastor, and upwards of one hundred dwelling-houses and other buildings ... / Composed by H.W.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

H. W., author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45140.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fires--Massachusetts--Boston--Poetry.

Fires.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1787.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (relief cut)

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Sold [by Ezekiel Russell] at the printing-office in Essex-Street, next Liberty-Pole: where may be had, on Saturday next, a particular account of the above melancholy catastrophe ..., [1787]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Verse in seventeen stanzas; first line: Gentle Clio calm my passions.

Ezekiel Russell printed at this address in Boston in 1787.

Text in two columns separated by a double row of ornaments; relief cut of the conflagration at head of title.

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 45140).

Cited in:

Bristol B6630

Shipton and Mooney 45140

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