Epitaphs and elegies. : [Four lines of verse].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Samuel, 1760-1844, compiler.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37523.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's poetry.

Children--Death--Religious aspects--Juvenile poetry.

Children.

Children--Death--Religious aspects.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1817.

Epitaphs.

Elegies.

Poems -- 1817.

Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- New York.

Publishers' advertisements -- Maryland -- Baltimore.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

iv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 6-72 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York: : Printed and sold by Samuel Wood & Sons, at the Juvenile Book-Store, no. 357, Pearl-Street., 1816 [that is, between 1817 and 1824?].

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

"The publisher of this little volume of epitaphs, selected from among many of his own collection, presents it to his juvenile readers ..."--Preface, p. [iii].

Samuel Wood & Sons published at 261 Pearl St., New York, between 1817 and 1835. Samuel S. Wood & Co. was located at 212 Market St., Baltimore, between 1818 and at least 1824. A Baltimore directory for 1825 has not been located. Samuel S. Wood had re-located to New York by 1826.

"School books, published by Samuel Wood & Sons, New-York, and Samuel S. Wood & Co. Baltimore."--advertisement, back cover.

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. 37523).

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