Accession number
PML 127050
Creator
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
Published
[Philadelphia] : London printed, Philadelphia re-printed, and sold by Joseph Crukshank ..., 1786.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund 1990.
Notes
1st American ed.
The first American edition of the first published volume of poetry by a Black American author. Issued in Philadelphia following Wheatley's death in 1784, Wheatley's Poems on various subjects, religious and moral was originally published in London in 1773, following unsuccessful initial attempts to secure an adequate number of subscribers to finance publication of the book in Boston.
Signatures: A-E⁶ F⁴
Final blank leaf not included in pagination (part of wrapper?).
Includes dedication, preface, letter from John Wheatley, dated Boston, Nov. 14, 1772, and statement signed by Thomas Hutchinson, et al.
The first American edition of the first published volume of poetry by a Black American author. Issued in Philadelphia following Wheatley's death in 1784, Wheatley's Poems on various subjects, religious and moral was originally published in London in 1773, following unsuccessful initial attempts to secure an adequate number of subscribers to finance publication of the book in Boston.
Signatures: A-E⁶ F⁴
Final blank leaf not included in pagination (part of wrapper?).
Includes dedication, preface, letter from John Wheatley, dated Boston, Nov. 14, 1772, and statement signed by Thomas Hutchinson, et al.
Description
vi, [3], 10-66, [2] p. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Provenance
Inscription on blank: I. Thomas.
Binding
Stabbed, with remnants of original wrapper, in brown cloth case.
Classification
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