Profit and loss [electronic resource] : an elegy upon the decease of Mrs. Mary Gerrish, late vertuous wife of Mr. Samuel Gerrish, and daughter of the Honourable Judge Sewall. Who on Novemb. 17. 1710. the night after publick thanksgiving, entred on the celebration of triumphant hallelujahs, to he profit, and our loss. Aged 19. years & 20. days.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danforth, John, 1660-1730.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gerrish, Mary, 1691-1710.

Gerrish, Mary.

Genre:

Single sheet verse.

Broadsides.

Elegies.

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

Profit and loss

Place of Publication:

[Boston : s.n, 1710]

Notes:

Verse of 104 lines; first line: Mary, the Blessed Virgins name.

Signed: Moestus Composuit J.D. Generally attributed to John Danforth.

Text in two columns surrounded by mourning border; woodcut (Reilly 18) at head.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

Bristol, B356

Shipton & Mooney, 39502

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 326

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 103

English Short Title Catalog, W35123.

OCLC:

511240333