A Poem, spoken extempore, by a young lady, [electronic resource] : on hearing the guns firing and bells chiming on account of the great and glorious acquisition of their Excellencies Gen. Washington and the C. de Grasse, by the surrender of York-Town ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young lady., Author.

Contributor:

Young lady.

Russell, Ezekiel, 1743-1796, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Poetry.

Yorktown (Va.).

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Poetry.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns.

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805.

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis.

Washington, George, 1732-1799.

Washington, George.

Genre:

Single sheet verse.

Poems -- 1781.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet ) ill. (relief cuts) ;

Other Title:

Poem, spoken extempore, by a young lady,

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Printed by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump.--At the same place may be had, Russell's American almanac, and Bickerstaff's Boston do, [1781]

Notes:

Verse in twenty-eight lines, printed on left half of sheet beneath relief cut; first line: Honor commands great Washington I sing.

Right half of sheet contains second poem, in fifty-six lines, entitled: His Lordship humbled: or, Cornwallis's lamentation. With a relief cut flanking title. First line: Great Mars, thou god of battles won.

Dated [1782] by Bristol, but more likely printed soon after Cornwallis' surrender in October 1781. The advertisement for almanacs in the imprint also suggests that the sheet was issued late in 1781.

Printed area measures 32.1 x 18.7 cm.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

Bristol, B5572

Shipton & Mooney, 44247

English Short Title Catalog, W1010.

Contains:

His Lordship humbled: or, Cornwallis's lamentation.

OCLC:

510839986