Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
An elegy on the death of the late Reverend Charles Warburton, who died in Boston, July the 1st 1814, aged 30, by a lady of colour ; Huzza for the Constitution : On Sunday April 17, arrived in this harbour, the U.S. frigate Constitution. She has captured four prizes during her cruize ...
Call Number
GA 2024.04539
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc1831d085s
Publisher
[Boston] : Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. Milk-Street, [1814]
[Boston?] : [publisher not identified], [1814]
Language
English
Date Created
1814
Format
Book
Extent
1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 27.6 x 21.4 cm
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Recto: An elegy: Verse in eighteen stanzas; first line: "How happy! how happy the christian doth die" ; Text printed in two columns; At top left, a woodcut of a coffin.
Verso: Huzza: Verse in six stanzas; first line: "Once more John Bull may stamp and rave" ; At top, a woodcut of a three-masted square-rigged ship in full sail.

Discovery Information

Subject
Warburton, Charles 1783 or 1784-1814
Constitution (Frigate)—Poetry
Death—Poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aeef2d83-88a5-41c3-8ffa-02eb2769d101/manifest