The Speech of Death to Levi Ames : Who was executed on Boston-Neck, October 21, 1773, for the crime of burglary.
| Other author | Revere, Paul, 1735-1818, engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Boston] : [Printed by John Boyle], [1773] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42508. ^A478749 |
| General note | Verse of seventy lines; first line: I Death, poor Ames, pronounce your fate. |
| General note | Relief cut depicting a skeleton conversing with a man (Reilly 1195) was executed by Paul Revere for John Boyle in 1773; cf. Brigham, C.S. Paul Revere's engravings, Worcester, 1954, p. 136. |
| General note | Text in two columns. |
| References | Bristol B3647 |
| References | Shipton & Mooney 42508 |
| References | Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1647 |
| References | Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 787 |
| 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. 42508). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1773. |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |