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Elegy, &c : 1. Fair daughters of America, and eke of Britain's isle.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : [Printed by Ezekiel Russell], [1786?]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 26+ x 21+ cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44964. ^A478749
General noteVerse, in thirty-four numbered stanzas, concerning Elizabeth Wilson, who was executed at Chester, Pa., on January 3, 1786, as an accessory to the murder of her twin infants. Cf. A faithful narrative of Elizabeth Wilson (Evans 19635-19639).
General noteThe only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is badly mutilated; title from surviving portions of title and first lines of text.
General noteText in three columns. The lower half of the second column contains the note that "the publisher hereof proposes ... to insert in number four of his American bloody register, the whole of this shocking and tragical affair ..." and includes an advertisement for the Register. Ezekiel Russell, of Boston, printed and sold the first issue of the American bloody register in 1784 (Evans 18324), but no further numbers have been located.
References Bristol B6364
References Shipton & Mooney 44964
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44964).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formElegies.
Genre/formProspectuses.

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