Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A few lines composed on the dark day of May 19, 1780.
Call Number
E Row 2/GC053/Box 02/Normal/Hamilton SS 444 GA 2024.04541
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9c67x271p
Publisher
[England?] : [publisher not identified], 1780.
Language
English
Date Created
1780
Format
Book
Extent
1 sheet ; 35 cm
References
English short title catalogue N31404
Sinclair Hamilton Collection no. SS444
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Verse in twenty-two numbered stanzas; first line: Let us adore, and bow before, / the sovereign Lord of might,
Woodcut depicts three figures wandering about among trees.
The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, no. 57.
Text in two columns; with printers' ornaments separating title from text and at the foot of the second column. In the present edition, the title appears in four lines.
ESTC assigns London to place of printing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Curiosities and wonders—Poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/64886839-03df-413d-96b3-1f51d45bf67b/manifest