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An Account of the rise, progress, and termination, of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : Briefly stated from authentic documents.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardie, James, 1758-1826., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Yellow fever.
- Plague--England--London.
- Plague.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (36,12p. )
- Other Title:
- Account of the rise, progress, and termination, of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Benjamin Johnson, no. 147, north side of Market-Street, MDCCXCIII. [1793]
- Notes:
- Attributed to James Hardie by Austin.
- Two states noted by Edwin Wolf. In the earlier, "A list of burials" appears on a preliminary leaf pi1 and [A]1 verso is blank. In the later state, the list appears on [A]1 verso and there is no leaf pi1. Slight changes in the text were made as well. Cf. "Evidence indicating the need for some bibliographical analysis of American-printed historical works," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 63 (1969): 262.
- Page 19 misnumbered 91 in some copies.
- "A short account of the plague in London, 1665. (Written at that time.)"--12 p. at end. Abridged from Daniel Defoe's Journal of the plague year.
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 25075
- Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 15
- English Short Title Catalog, W10126.
- OCLC:
- 510948253
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