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A short description of Pennsilvania by Richard Frame ; reprinted from the supposed unique copy in the Philadelphia library
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA F 152.F81 1867
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frame, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania--Description and travel.
- Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 8 p. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : Oakwood Press, 1867.
- Notes:
- A reprint, nearly in facsimile, by Mr. S. J. Hamilton of what is probably the earliest poem printed in Philadelphia, including original t.-p. : A short description of Pennsilvania, or, A relation what things are known, enjoyed, and the like to be discovered in in[!] the said province. [Presen]ted (?) [a]s [a] toke[n] of good will [to the people(?)] of England. By Richard Frame. Printed and sold by William Bradford in Philadelphia, 1692.
- Introduction by Horatio Gates Jones.
- "Edition 118 copies. Small paper 102. Large paper 16.! No.24 (small paper).
- Local Notes:
- Gift of John William Wallace.
- Clipping pasted in. Advertisement bound in.
- OCLC:
- 1122501
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