The death of General Montgomery, at the siege of Quebec : A tragedy. : With an ode, in honour of the Pennsylvania militia, and the small band of regular continental troops, who sustained the campaign, in the depth of winter, January, 1777, and repulsed the British forces from the banks of the Delaware. / By the author of a dramatic piece, on the battle of Bunker's-Hill. ; To which are added, elegiac pieces, commemorative of distinguished characters. ; [Two lines from Pitt's Virgil].
| Author/creator | Brackenridge, H. H. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, next door to St. Paul's Church, M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777] |
| Description | 79 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Parke, John, 1754-1789. |
| Other author/creator | Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 dedicatee. |
| Other author/creator | Norman, John, 1748?-1817, engraver. |
| Other author/creator | N. G., illustrator. |
| Included Work | Whitehead, William, 1715-1785 Ode for the New-Year, 1776. |
| Uniform title | Death of General Montgomery |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15248. ^A478749 |
| General note | Attributed to Hugh Henry Brackenridge in BAL. |
| General note | Prologue, p. [82-83], signed: J.P. [i.e., John Parke]. |
| General note | Frontispiece signed: N.G. inv. Norman, sc. |
| General note | Dedicated to Thomas Mifflin. |
| General note | Three states noted in BAL, which see. For further discussion of this work see: Blanck, Jacob. "Brackenridge's Death of General Montgomery." Harvard Library Bulletin VII (1953): 357-361. |
| General note | Two states of the frontispiece noted. In one, the area at lower left is blank, and there is a small white cloud above the ghost of General Wolfe. In the other, the area at lower left has a brickwork pattern, and the cloud has been removed. |
| General note | Error in paging: p. 78 misnumbered 68. |
| References | Evans 15248 |
| References | BAL 1295 |
| References | Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3527 |
| References | Hill, F.P. Amer. plays, 23 |
| 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. 15248). |
| Genre/form | Plays 1777. |
| Genre/form | Songs. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1777. |
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