| Author | Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
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| Title | Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.
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| Published | London, Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-street, Boston, 1773.
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| Description | v, [1] p., 1 ℓ., [9]-124, [4] p. front. (port.) 17.1 cm.
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| General Note | First edition; cf. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (Philadelphia: Library Co.), no. 11111; Negro history, 1553-1903 (Philadelphia. Library Co.), no. 194; and The Negro in the United States, by Dorothy B. Porter, no. 1284.
Frontispiece (trimmed and mounted) is an engraved port. of the author.
"Published ... Septr. 1st, 1773 by Archd. Bell, bookseller no. 8 near the Saracens Head Aldgate."--Front.
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| Subjects | African American poets -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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| | WRHS Research Library: PS 866 W5P 1773 Vault
mq31817: Rare book room, LC class, restricted access [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 24698] |
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