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The miscellaneous works of Colonel Humphreys.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS778.H5 A16 1790b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humphreys, David, 1752-1818.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790.
- Putnam, Israel.
- United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789--Poetry.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 31 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 32-348 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : Printed by Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, and sold at their respective book-stores, 1790.
- Contents:
- Address to the armies of America
- A poem on the happiness of America
- [Miscellaneous verse]
- The widow of Malabar [by Mariana Starke, with prologue and epilogue by John Trumbull and David Humphreys]
- An essay on the life of the Honorable Major-General Israel Putnam
- An oration on the political situation of the United States of America.
- Notes:
- A different work from: The miscellaneous works of David Humphreys, published in 1804.
- A variant issue, with pages 29-32 (leaves D3-D4) cancelled by the insertion of a four-leaved sheet signed '(d)' containing "Extract from the Columbian magazine for Oct. 1786" and "Preface to the ninth edition" both concerning "A poem on the happiness of America."
- Errors in pagination: 188-189 called 187-188; 247-248 repeated, 255-256 omitted.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: p. 265-272 bound before 257-264.
- OCLC:
- 652818
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