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Poetical meditations : being the improvement of some vacant hours / by Roger Wolcott, Esq; with a preface by the Reverend Mr. Bulkley of Colchester.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolcott, Roger, 1679-1767.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Indians of North America.
- Woolen and worsted manufacture--New England.
- Woolen and worsted manufacture.
- Connecticut--Poetry.
- Connecticut.
- New England.
- Genre:
- Poems -- 1725.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- White, Sally (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, lvi, ii, 78 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- o.ne sher h;th InEv (3) 1725 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- New London [Conn.] : printed and sold by T. Green, 1725.
- Notes:
- Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁴ e² B-E⁸ F-G⁴ H².
- The preface is largely a disquisition on the right of the North American Indians to their lands.
- Dedicated to Timothy Edwards.
- "Advertisement", concerning the manufacture of wool signed "Joseph Dewey, Colchester, 1725", the patron who paid for publication, on p. [80-84]. "The first volume of verse printed in Connecticut. Joseph Dewey, a maker of woolen cloth in Colchester ... bore the expense of printing the edition on condition of inserting his advertisement, of three pages at the end." Cf. Evans.
- Half-title on first leaf.
- Title within double ruled border.
- Head-pieces.
- "Errata." on p. [79].
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown speckled leather; blind-tooled double line fillet borders on boards.
- Culture Class Collection copy has an inscription in brown ink on front pastedown that reads "No. 56 Sally White's Book".
- Cited in:
- ESTC, W28923
- Evans, 2722
- Johnson, H.A. New London, 207
- Sabin, 104986
- Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1696
- Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 465
- OCLC:
- 611996154
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