A collection of plays and poems / by the late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg county, in the state of Virginia. ; Now first published together.
| Author/creator | Munford, Robert |
| Other author | Munford, William, 1775-1825 editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Petersburg [Va.] : Printed by William Prentis, M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798] |
| Description | xii, 1 unnumbered page, 14-168, 187-206 pages ; 22 cm (8vo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 34158. ^A478749 |
| Contents | The candidates; or The humours of a Virginia election. A comedy, in three acts -- The patriots. A comedy, in five acts -- the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated -- Miscellaneous poems. Consisting of The ram: a comic poem. Letters from the Devil to his son. Answer to the winter-piece. Colin and Celia: a pastoral poem. A dream. And A patriotic song. |
| General note | Preface signed by the author's son, William Munford. |
| General note | Edwin Wolf notes completely reset variants of gatherings C and N. Cf. Wolf, "Historical grist for the bibliographical mill." Studies in bibliography 25 (1972): 30. |
| General note | Error in paging: page numbers 169-186 omitted. |
| References | Evans 34158 |
| References | Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 278 |
| References | Hill, F.P. Amer. plays, 193 |
| 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. 34158). |
| Genre/form | Plays 1798. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1798. |
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