A poem, descriptive of the terrible fire, which made such shocking devastation in Boston, on Friday evening the twenty-first of April, 1787 : in which were consumed one house of worship, of which the Reverend Ebenezer Wight was pastor, and upwards of one hundred dwelling-houses and other buildings ... / Composed by H.W.

Author/creator H. W.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Boston] : Sold [by Ezekiel Russell] at the printing-office in Essex-Street, next Liberty-Pole: where may be had, on Saturday next, a particular account of the above melancholy catastrophe ..., [1787]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 45140. ^A478749
General noteVerse in seventeen stanzas; first line: Gentle Clio calm my passions.
General noteEzekiel Russell printed at this address in Boston in 1787.
General noteText in two columns separated by a double row of ornaments; relief cut of the conflagration at head of title.
References Bristol B6630
References Shipton & Mooney 45140
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. 45140).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1787.

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