The Grecian daughter. Or, an example of a virtuous wife, who fed her father with her own milk--he being condemned to be starved to death by Tiberius Caesar, Emperor of Rome; but was afterwards pardoned, and the daughter highly rewarded.

Accession number: 
PML 3469.79
Published: 
Windsor [Vt.], : Printed for the flying book-sellers [by Alden Spooner, 1798?].
Description: 
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (relief cut) ; 50 x 45 cm
Notes: 

Verse of 176 lines; first line: In Rome there liv'd a nobleman the emp'ror did offend.
Although engraving is supposed to be signed "R.E.S." not seen here. Also, this sheet and the printing area are somewhat smaller than the American Antiquarian Society copy.
Earlier edition (Evans 28136) printed by Ezekiel Russell in 1794 has title: A Worthy example of a virtuous wife ...
Date suggested by McCorison; Alden Spooner was the only printer active at Windsor, Vt., in 1798.
Text in five columns; printed area, including engraving, measures 44 x 35.5 cm

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