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A Lamentation for Gen. Washington, Esq : commander in chief of the combined forces of America and France, during the Revolutionary War, and afterwards president of the United States of America---who died December 14th, 1799.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : N. Coverly, Jr. printer, Milk-Street, Boston, [between 1810 and 1814]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 30 x 22 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 20518. ^A575643
General noteVerse in two stanzas with prose epilogue; first line: What solemn sounds the ear invade.
General noteFollowed by Columbia's lamentation for Gen. Washington; first line, following three lines of quotation: How sad are the tidings that sound in my ears.
General noteNathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 69, presented to the society in August 1814.
General noteText in two columns; printed area measures 24.3 x 17.1 cm.
References Evans 37771
References Shaw & Shoemaker 20518
References Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 135
References Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 1307
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., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 20518).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1810.
Contains title Columbia's lamentation for Gen. Washington.

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