| Series |
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43859. ^A478749
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| General note | Verse in twenty-two stanzas; first lines: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might. |
| General note | The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, no. 57. |
| General note | Dated [1780?] by Bristol, Ford, and Wegelin. American Antiquarian Society copy 1 bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 21, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924. |
| General note | Text in two columns; printed area measures 26.4 x 15.1 cm. |
| References |
Bristol B5152 |
| References |
Shipton & Mooney 43859 |
| References |
Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 697 |
| References |
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2269 |
| References |
Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 194 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic 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. 43859). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1810. |
