An authentic narrative of the causes which led to the dead of Major Andrè, Adjutant-General of His Majesty's forces in North America / by Joshua Hett Smith ... ; to which is added a Monody on the death of Major Andrè by Miss Seward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Joshua Hett, 1749-1818.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

André, John, 1751-1780.

André, John.

Seward, Anna, 1742-1809.

Seward, Anna.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- England -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 357 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Matthews and Leigh, 1808.

Notes:

"Printed by W. Clowes, Northumberland Court, Strand".

"A monody on the death of Major John Andrè, by Miss Seward" : p. [307]-335.

"Letters addressed to the author of the foregoing poem, by Major Andre, when he was a youth of eighteen" : p. [337]-357.

Frontispiece is a reproduction of Major Andrè's portrait of himself, originally engraved in 1784 by J. K. Sherwin, and re-engraved by Hopwood for this edition.--cf. Winsor, Narr. and crit. hist. of America, 6:454.

Publisher's advertisements: p. [2]-[3] at the end.

Local Notes:

Correspondence between Joshua Hett Smith and M. A. Clarke as well as article from the Morning Chronicle, London, January 21, 1828 bound in.

Cited in:

Sabin 83421

OCLC:

10603262