An elegy upon the much lamented decease of the reverend & excellent Mr. Solomon Stoddard, [electronic resource] : late faithful pastor of the Church of Christ in North Hampton, N.E. Qui obiit, February 11th, Anno Dom. 1729. Ætat. suæ 86.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Joseph, 1664-1740.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stoddard, Solomon, 1643-1729.

Stoddard, Solomon.

Genre:

Single sheet verse.

Broadsides.

Elegies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet )

Other Title:

Elegy upon the much lamented decease of the reverend & excellent Mr. Solomon Stoddard,

Place of Publication:

[Boston? : s.n, 1729]

Notes:

Verse of ninety-five lines; first line: On morning wings what man 'fore death 'ere flies. Signed: Haec composuit Joseph Nash.

Stoddard's death date is given according to the new style calendar.

Ford suggests the original to be "a modern imprint, modelled on an old form, which may have been contemporaneous with the event." However, typography suggests that the broadside was printed in 1729.

Text in two columns surrounded by mourning border.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

Bristol, B794

Shipton & Mooney, 39923

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 567

English Short Title Catalog, W31837.

OCLC:

511210840