A Wonderful dream / By Miss Jemima Wilkinson, a sleeping preacher.

Other author Public Universal Friend, 1752-1819
Other author Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[United States] : [publisher not identified], [1816?]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 51 x 24 cm
Supplemental ContentShaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. Second series no. 22078. ^A575643
General noteVerse in sixty-eight stanzas; first lines: When the bright monarch of the day withdrew from human sight.
General noteEarlier editions are "By Dr. Watts."
General noteThe attribution to Isaac Watts is doubtful. Cf. Johnson, H.A. New London imprints, p. 167-170. The attribution to Jemima Wilkinson is also doubtful; editions of the text predate her religious conversion in 1775-76.
General noteText in three columns; printed area measures 46.7 x 21.5 cm.
General noteAmerican Antiquarian Society has second copy with, on sheet measuring 51 x 60 cm., intended to be separated: A Wonderful discovery of a hermit, who lived upwards of 200 years. United States : 1816 [and] Hard times.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 22078
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. 22078).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1816.

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