A Lamentation for Gen. Washington, Esq : commander in chief of the combined forces of America and France, during the Revolutionary War, and afterwards president of the United States of America---who died December 14th, 1799

A Lamentation for Gen. Washington, Esq : commander in chief of the combined forces of America and France, during the Revolutionary War, and afterwards president of the United States of America---who died December 14th, 1799.

Format	Book and Microform
Publication Info	[Boston] : N. Coverly, Jr. printer, Milk-Street, Boston, [between 1810 and 1814]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 30 x 22 cm.
Subject(s)	Washington, George, 1732-1799--Poetry.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37771 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37771. ^A478749
General note	Verse in two stanzas with prose epilogue; first line: What solemn sounds the ear invade.
General note	Followed by Columbia's lamentation for Gen. Washington; first line, folowing three lines of quotation: How sad are the tidings that sound in my ears.
General note	Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 69, presented to the society in August 1814.
General note	Text in two columns; printed area measures 24.3 x 17.1 cm.
General note	Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
References	Evans 37771
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 20518
References	Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 135
References	Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 1307
Reproduction note	Joyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37771).
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Poems 1810.
Contains title	Columbia's lamentation for Gen. Washington.
Other title	What solemn sounds the ear invade.
Other title	How sad are the tidings that sound in my ears.

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	NC Microfiche	MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 37771	✔ Available