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A Funeral elegy upon the death of that excellent and most worthy gentleman John Winthrop Esq : late governour of his majestyes colony of Conecticot; who deceased April, 1676.

Other author/creatorChester, Stephen, 1640-1705.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : [Printed by John Foster], [1676]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39195. ^A478749
General noteVerse of forty-six lines; first line: Let woe be printed nigh unto our land.
General noteFollowed by: Accrosticon [sic] and Epitaph.
General noteImprint supplied by Samuel Abbott Green in his John Foster: the earliest American engraver and the first Boston printer, 1909, p. 125-126. Green suggests Stephen Chester of Weathersfield, Conn., as possible author.
General noteText in two columns, surrounded by mourning border.
References Bristol B32
References Shipton & Mooney 39195
References Wing (2nd ed.) F2532
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 51
References Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 66
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 39195).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formElegies.
Genre/formAcrostics.
Genre/formEpitaphs.

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