Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / by Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.

Contributor:

Bell, Archibald, 1755-1854, publisher.

Cox & Berry, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious poetry, American.

Physical Description:

v pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 10-124 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 18 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

3.2, h.g: s.e! daOt (3) 1773 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : printed for A. Bell ... ; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry ..., MDCCLXXIII [1773]

Notes:

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Q⁴.

First edition; cf. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (Philadelphia: Library Co.), no. 11111; Negro history, 1553-1903 (Philadelphia. Library Co.), no. 194; and The Negro in the United States, by Dorothy B. Porter, no. 1284.

Frontispiece is an engraved port. of the author.

"Published ... Septr. 1st, 1773 by Archd. Bell, bookseller no. 8 near the Saracens Head Aldgate."--Frontispiece.

With a mixture of horizontal and vertical chain lines, and with two final contents leaves.

Advertisements: [1] p. at end. ESTC describes two states: one variant begins: "Lately published in 2 vols. twelves, ... "; a variant begins: "Lately published, (price 5s. sewed.)".

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: Q gathering misbound as follows: Q1, Q3, Q4, Q2.

Culture Class Collection copy advertisement on p. [1] at end begins: "Lately published in 2 vols. twelves, ... ."

Cited in:

ESTC, T153734

Sabin, 103136

Wegelin, O. Amer poetry, 432

Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library Catalog, v. 1, p. 204

OCLC:

916479