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] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45140. ^A478749 |
| General note | Verse in seventeen stanzas; first line: Gentle Clio calm my passions. |
| General note | Ezekiel Russell printed at this address in Boston in 1787. |
| General note | Text 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 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. 45140). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1787. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |