Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Second poem attributed to C. Dibdin by Thomas L. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.
Title from first line. Double printing. At end of text: K.L.B.
Poetry printed in two columns; double line above and below text in each column.
Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of text: Know ye not that there is a great man fallen this day?...
Poetry and prose. Colored illustrations of clothed elephant on pages [1] and [4]; drawings illustrating prose text on pages [2-3] Advertisement for Diamond Dyes. Probable range of dates from internal evidence.
Cut at head of text. Within border of type ornaments. First line: The twenty-third of April ..
Within ornamental border.
Title includes first line. Printed in two columns.
At head of text: By his third son, Ss̲̲.
Printed in one and three columns divided by curvilinear lines; border of type ornaments at top and bottom. Printed area measures: 27.2 x 22.7 cm. Subtitle continues: In the spring of the following year it was conjectured by some that his body had been taken up and removed for dissection soon after it was buried .... Suggested place of publication because subtitle calls Prescott a native of Candia and says his grave was opened and found empty in 1821.
At head of text: Composed by C.P.I.
Tune: Rejoice in thy youth. Text printed in three columns divided by single rules. For imprint information see: Dudley, Mehetable: An address to ... (HB29979)
Within border of type ornaments, printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line.
At head of text: Miss Sally Oaks died May 20th, 1818, aged nineteen years wanting four days. Poetry in 14 four-line stanzas printed in two columns with printed signature and date at end: Samuel Dunn. Newsalem, May 25, 1818. Samuel Dunn, active between 1800 and 1838, had most of his poems printed in nearby Greenwich, Mass., after 1816 in Enfield, Mass., by Howe. Wood engraving of coffin at left of title.
Processed copy. Within single line border.
Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Composed on the death of their parents-Capt. Ephraim Chamberlin, who died at New Durham, May 18, 1832, aged 38 years, and Abigail Chamberlin who died at Dover, July 13, 1842, aged 54 years. First line: Children you are clad in mourning.
Border of type ornaments at top and bottom.
Within mourning border printed in two columns divided by heavy black line, with heavy black line below title. Woodcut at end of text. First line: Sad be the verse departed worth inspires.
Within double line border.
Poetry. Printed in two columns within border of type ornaments. Cut of coffin at left of title within border. Poem in 12 stanzas followed by an acrostic with initials spelling Mr Harfield Lyndsey. At end of text: Written by Samuel Dunn, AEt. 91 years 7 months. Imprint information from Howe bibliography in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. 60 (1950), p. 217-223. Solomon Howe, printer, son of Solomon Howe (1750-1835), Baptist minister and author, printed with his brother John (1783-1845) at Greenwich and Enfield, Mass. and published broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830's. Enfield was separated from Greenwich, Mass. and incorporated in 1816. First line: May those who read, please to attend. First line of acrostic: May these few lines be read with serious mind. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.
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Ornamental border with cuts at end of text.
Ornamental border with cuts at end of text.
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments. Title continues: All respectable citizens of the town of Marlborough, who were unfortunately drowned on the Flatts, in front of the town, in attempting to go on shore, on Friday morning, the 12th of December, 1800, in a violent storm of wind and rain. At head of text cut of five coffins. Poem in 18 four-line stanzas, reprint of contemporary elegy. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially type ornaments.
by Charles Smith, Past Commander, Ellsworth Post 67, G.A.R., N.Y. Within mourning border. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. At end of text: July 23d 1885.
Signed: Moestus Composuit; Samuel Danforth. Imprint from Evans. Within mourning border printed in two columns divided by heavy line. Woodcut of Death the Reaper bearing legend: Memento Mori / Remember Death (Reilly 18) at head of title.
Headband of single line and line of type ornaments at head and end. At end of text: H.W.
1 broadsheet Ms. note at head of text: Concerning those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
by J.O. Ferry. Broadsheet printed in purple; poem on recto, prose text with Bible verses on verso. At head of text illustration of flowers and scroll. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.
1 broadsheet.
1 broadsheet.
