Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
An oration delivered April 2d, 1771. : At the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston; to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770. / By James Lovell, A.M. ; [Four lines of quotations in Latin].
Call Number
EX Lapidus 2.27
104.10
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1n79h504z
Publisher
Boston: : Printed by Edes and Gill, by order of the town of Boston., 1771.
Language
English
Date Created
1771
Extent
19, [1] p. ; 24.8 x 19.8 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Princeton copy 3 WHS copy acquired 6/13/29 from Goodspeed; inv. 613.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 2 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2010.
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W21432
Sabin 42374.
Church 1086.
Evans 12099.
Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 85
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
With a half title.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ C² (C2 verso blank).
Erratum note, p. 19.
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus 5.1928 bound with East Apthorp, The Felicity of the Times (Boston, 1763; ESTC W12123) and William Bollan, Continued Corruption (London, 1768; ESTC N1000)
Princeton copy 2 Lapidus 2.27 has last leaf in facsimile.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 2 Lapidus 2.27 in recent gray paper covered boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Boston Massacre, 1770—Anniversaries, etc
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783—Causes

Physical Characteristics

File Count
50

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/43212b99-cd84-4824-b454-662ccef93da3/manifest