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The awful malignant fever at Newburyport, in the year 1796 : An elegiac epistle to the mourners, on the death of forty persons ... Together with a short account of that alarming disorder--- / By Jonathan Plummer, Jun.

Author/creator Plummer, Jonathan, 1761-1819
Format Book and Microform
Publication Info[Newburyport, Mass.] : [publisher not identified] Printed for and sold by the author, [1796]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 56 x 44 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31018
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31018. ^A478749
General noteElegiac epistle, first line: Daughters of Eve and sons of men.
General noteIncludes also List of those who died, and four additional stanzas of verse entitled, Invitation to the inhabitants of Newburyport who have fled to the country, on account of the malignant fever.
General noteDated: Newburyport, October 6, 1796.
General noteWith fory-four coffins in two rows in midst of title.
General noteText in four columns; printed area measures 51.8 x 37.7 cm.
References Evans 31018
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2793
References Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1548
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31018).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1796.
Other titleElegiac epistle to the mourners, on the death of forty persons.
Other titleDaughters of Eve and sons of men.

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