Philosophic solitude: or, The choice of a rural life : a poem. / By a gentleman educated at Yale College. ; [Two lines of quotations in Latin].

Author/creator Livingston, William
Other author Welles, Noah, 1718-1776.
Other author Smith, William Peartree, 1723-1801.
Format Electronic
EditionThe third edition.
Publication InfoNew-York : Printed by John Holt at the exchange, [1769]
Descriptionxii, 2 unnumbered pages, 15-40 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 11315. ^A478749
General noteAttributed to Livingston in the Dictionary of American biography.
General noteDate of publication suggested by Evans.
General note"To the ingenious author of the poem entiteed [sic] Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. v-viii, in verse; signed: N.W. [i.e., Noah Welles]. "To Mr, L*************** on his Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. ix-xii, in verse; signed: W.P.S. [i.e., William Peartree Smith]. Cf. Sedgwick, Theodore. Memoir of the life of William Livingston (New York, 1833), p. 62.
References Evans 11315
References Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 245
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. 11315).
Genre/formPoems 1769.

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