| Series |
Early American imprints. Second series no. 27647. ^A575643
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| General note | The biographical notice of Captain James Lawrence, p. 17-32, is by Washington Irving, and was taken from the Analectic magazine, Philadelphia. |
| General note | In a copy held by the American Antiquarian Society, the poem "Tribute to the memory of the brave, though successless, defenders of the United States frigate Chesapeake" is signed in pencil: CS. This is probably Charles Sprague (1791-1875). See his Poetical and prose writings, new ed., Boston, 1876, p. viii. |
| General note | Copyright Aug. 28, 1813 by Joshua Belcher. |
| General note | Two states of gathering 5 noted. In the first, the letter on p. 40, dated Aug. 18 and addressed to the Committee of the Proprietors of Dr. Barnard's Meeting-house, names three members of the committee. In the second state, seven committee members are named. |
| General note | Two states of gathering 8 noted. The second has a tailpiece on p. 64, not present in the first state. |
| General note | BAL characterizes as "State A" copies with the first state of gathering 5 and the first state of gathering 8, and as "State B" copies with the second state of each gathering. According to BAL, "Intermediates have been seen, possibly produced by mixed sheets." |
| References |
Shaw & Shoemaker 27647 |
| References |
Shaw & Shoemaker 29884 |
| References |
BAL 10101 |
| 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., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 27647). |
| Genre/form | Poems 1813. |
