Ouâbi, or, The virtues of nature : an Indian tale in four cantos / by Philenia, a Lady of Boston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 1759-1846.

Contributor:

Gullager, Christian, 1759-1826.

Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804, engraver.

Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831, printer.

Andrews, Ebenezer Turrell, 1766-1851, printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

American Antiquarian Society (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10-51 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 illustration (engraving) ; 23 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Ouâbi

Virtues of nature

Fingerprint:

A.t, r.er d.k. SoAn (3) 1790 (R)

Place of Publication:

Printed at Boston : By I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews ..., MDCCXC [1790]

Notes:

"Attributed to Morton in the Dictionary of American biography."--ESTC.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-F⁴ G².

Engraved plate (frontispiece illustration). "Frontispiece by C. Gullager; engraved by S. Hill."--ESTC.

Woodcut title ornament, head- and tail-piece.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has round stamp ("AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY WORCESTER, MASS.") on title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy bound in blue paper wrappers; housed in clamshell case.

Cited in:

Evans 22684

ESTC W28842

NUC pre-1956 NM 0805247 (vol. 396, p. 605)

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry 275

OCLC:

25197923