The Squatters of Maine.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21404.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Maine--History--Songs and music.

Maine.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Songs.

Songs and music.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 28 x 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [between 1810 and 1814]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

"A new song" in five numbered stanzas; first lines: Approach ye Feds, in phalanx brave, with mien and visage ireful.

Followed by Tom Bowling, attributed to Charles Dibdin in Philbrick, Thomas L. "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258; first line: Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling.

American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. I, no. 18, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 22.0 x 15.0 cm.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21404).

Contains:

Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. Oddities. Tom Bowling

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