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Jonathan's courtship
Uniform Title
Country lovers
Title
Jonathan's courtship [electronic resource].
Published
[Hanover, N.H.? : s.n., 1795?]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 28 x 21 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Verse in twenty-eight stanzas; first line: A merry tale I will rehearse.
Probably the earliest edition of Thomas Green Fessenden's "Country lovers." Although Bristol suggests New Haven as the place of publication, the broadside was more likely printed in New Hampshire about 1795 while Fessenden was a student at Dartmouth College. Cf. Perrin, Porter Gale. The life and works of Thomas Green Fessenden, 1925, p. 33-35, 186-192.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 25.6 x 16.2 cm.
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. 47420).
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Other formats
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 18, 2006
References
Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B9096
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 47420
Wegelin, O. Early American poetry, 137
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Poems - 1795.
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