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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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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Signed Author By Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston, in New England
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Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination 124
Date of Publication 1773
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Edition Number 2
Date of First Publication 1773
Imprint Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston.
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Copyright Statement Entered at Stationers Hall.
Location of Printing London GB
Format Octavo (8vo)
Length (cm) 16
Width (cm) 11
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  • Hou Gen AC7.W5602.773p (A) Huntington 123558
Notes Jennifer Rene Young identifies this edition as the second London edition, of which there were two versions–one neatly bound and the other a blue sewn paperback. Both versions of this edition contain the dedication, preface, sketch by J. Wheatley, and attestation which are absent from the first London edition. (Young , Jennifer Rene. “Marketing a Sable Muse: Phillis Wheatley and the Antebellum Press .” New Essays on Phillis Wheatley, by John C. Shields and Eric D. Lamore, University of Tennessee Press , 2011, pp. 209–246)
Hou Gen AC7.W5602.773p (A) is signed below "Entered at Stationer's Hall."
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Wheatley Peters, Phillis. Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston, in New England.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 13811, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/13811. Accessed 2025-07-01. 

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