Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Orations delivered at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, to commemorate the evening of the fifth of March, 1770: when a number of citizens were killed by a party of British troops, quartered among them, in a time of peace
Call Number
Lapidus 5.2115
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc1n79hf601
Publisher
Boston, Printed by Peter Edes, in State-Street, 1785
Language
English
Date Created
1785
Extent
200 p. ; 12mo
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on front free endpaper 'Ossipee & Wolfboro Social Library. Cost 75 cents.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W21574
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Preface signed: Peter Edes. Boston. January, 1785.
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy is second state with additional material on p. [185]-200, as follows:
"An oration, delivered at the King’s-Chapel in Boston, April 8, 1776, on the re-interment of the remains of the late most worshipful Grand-Master Joseph Warren .. By Perez Morton .."--p. [185]-193, with separate title page with imprint: Boston: Peter Edes, 1785.
"A poem. The following masterly piece of original compostion is from the pen of James Allen, of Boston .."--p. 195-200 (Evans 18899).
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary full calf.

Discovery Information

Subject
Library copies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
207

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f65df68c-d013-45b2-98dc-9e2e9cf67376/manifest