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The silver key, or A fancy to truth and a warning to youth : Shewing the benefit of money, and the contempt of the poor, under the term of a silver key.

Author/creator Beverstock, George
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. corner of Theatre-Alley, Milk-Street, Boston, Sept. 2d, 1811.
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 29 x 22 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 22341. ^A575643
General noteVerse in two parts; first line: The silver key, doth bear the sway. Signed: From your servant, poor George Beverstoc [i.e., Beverstock].
General noteAmerican Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. I, no. 6.
General noteText in three columns; printed area measures 22.6 x 18.8 cm.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 22341
References Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 244
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. 22341).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1811.

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