The times : a poem / by Peter Markoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markoe, Peter, 1752?-1792.

Contributor:

Prichard & Hall, printer.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1865--Early works to 1800.

Pennsylvania.

Penn Provenance:

Rodney, Thomas, 1744-1811 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Wilmington Institute Free Library (Wilmington, Del.) (stamp) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

iv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 6-35 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 19 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

eye- e,ys t.t, gaTh (3) 1788 (R)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed for the author by Prichard and Hall ..., MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]

Notes:

A satire on the government of Pennsylvania.

"'A very recent commitment, which, in the opinion of many, is grievous, unconstitutional, and highly tryannical, has induced him [i.e., Markoe] to prefix his name to this edition.'--Preface, dated Philadelphia, July, 1788. An earlier edition (Evans 21215), with preface dated Jan. 1788, was published anonymously."--ESTC.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E².

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Ian Brabner Rare Americana.

RBC copy has autograph of Thomas Rodney on leaf [A]2r and his annotations in text.

RBC copy has perforated stamp ("WILMINGTON INSTITUTE FREE LIBRARY") of Wilmington Institute Free Library (Wilmington, Del.) on title leaf and leaf [A]3r.

RBC copy disbound; spine reinforced with cloth tape.

RBC copy: title leaf mutilated with loss of first word of title and damage to early ms. inscription; hole in tail margin of leaves D4-E2; leaf E2 mutilated with some loss of text and mounted on tissue.

Cited in:

ESTC W29550

Evans 21214

OCLC:

40706097