Series |
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42816. ^A478749
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General note | The events preceding the American Revolution, related in mock-Biblical style. |
General note | Caption title. |
General note | By John Leacock. Leacock's play, "The fall of British tyranny," was advertised in the Constitutional gazette, July 3, 1776, as "by the author of the American chronicles of the times." Cf. Carla Mulford's Introduction to "John Leacock's The first book of the American chronicles of the times, 1774-1775" (Newark : University of Delaware Press, 1987). |
General note | "... said to be wrote by that great patriot ... S----l A---s [i.e., Samuel Adams], Esquire, a member for this province in the Grand American Continental Congress."--from an advertisement for the work in: The Wonder of wonders ... 2nd ed., Salem, Mass. : E. Russell, 1775. A portrait of Adams appears on the title page of Russell's edition of the work (Salem, 1774). |
General note | Imprint from colophon. Date of publication supplied by Bristol. |
General note | Two states of the colophon noted. One is as given above; the other reads: Printed and sold by D. kneeland, in Queen-Street. Where also may be had the first, second & fourth chapters. |
References |
Bristol B3977 |
References |
Shipton & Mooney 42816 |
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. 42816). |
Genre/form | Satires. |
Other title | American chronicles of the times. |