A pretty story written in the year of our Lord 2774 / by Peter Grievous, Esq.; A.B.C.D.E. ; [One line of Latin text].

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791.

Contributor:

• Dunlap, John, 1747-1812, printer.
• Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
• United States.
• History.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Satires.

Physical Description:

29 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

urnk adal h-nd ofin (3) 1774 (R)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed and Sold by John Dunlap, MDCCLXXIV [1774]

Notes:

• Signatures: [A]-D⁴.
• Original blue-gray wrappers, stitched and untrimmed; in half morocco case.
• A political allegory, satirizing relations between Great Britain and the American colonies.
• Attributed to Francis Hopkinson in the Dictionary of American biography.

Cited in:

• Evans, 13338
• Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3031
• Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 1230
• ESTC, W30580

OCLC:

6799421