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Des Kaysers Abschied.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Ephrata, Pa.?] : [Printed by the Ephrata Community?], [1745?]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 29 x 21 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49219. ^A478749
General noteDialogue, in verse of nine numbered stanzas, between Death and the Emperor (evidently Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I). For a discussion of this broadside see Breitenbach, Edgar. Des Kaysers Abschied and the first dance of death in America, Quarterly of the Pennsylvania German Society, v. 12, no. 1, Jan. 1978, p. 4-9.
General noteImprint suggested by Breitenbach.
General noteText in two columns; tailpieces (Reilly 156) at the foot of each column; printed area measures 27.2 x 15.9 cm.
General noteNot in Evans or Bristol.
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. 49219).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1745.
Genre/formDialogues.

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