Wasp stinging Frolick, or Engagement between the American sloop of war Wasp, of 18 guns, and the British sloop of war Frolick, of 20 guns.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 27468.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wasp (Sloop).

History.

United States--History--War of 1812--Songs and music.

United States.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Songs.

Songs and music.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 30 x 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun'r., [1812]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Song in ten stanzas concerning the engagement which occurred on Oct. 13, 1812; first line: A fine little sloop from the Delaware came.

Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. was printing at Boston at this time.

American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 37a, presented to the society in August 1814.

With, on verso, copy 2 of: Columbia and Independence, a new patriotic song.

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. 27468).

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