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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].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC7 H7777 774p
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791.
- 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
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