The Antigonian and Bostonian beauties : a poem. Occasion'd by seeing the assembly, at St. John's Antigua, on Thursday the 7th of July, and afterwards at Boston, in King-Street. : [Three lines from Milton] / By W.S. A.B.

Author/creator Shervington, William
Other author Shirley, William, 1694-1771.
Other author Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787.
Other author Seneca.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBoston : Printed and sold by D. Fowle in Queen-Street, [1751?]
Description8, 8 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 7317. ^A478749
General noteAttributed to William Shervington in: Eames, Wilberforce. "The Antigua press and Benjamin Mecom, 1748-1765." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 38 (1929): 323. Originally printed in Shervington's 'Occasional poems,' Antigua, 1749. Mistakenly attributed to William Shirley by Evans; sometimes attributed to Charles Chauncy.
General noteDate of publication suggested by Eames. Evans suggests 1754 as date of publication.
General note"Some thoughts from Seneca; against rash judgement and anger."-- 8 p., 2nd count.
References Evans 7317
References Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 361
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. 7317).
Genre/formPoems 1751.

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