A Poem, Spoken Extempore, by a Young Lady, on hearing the Guns Firing and Bells chiming on account of the Great and Glorious Acquisition of their Excellencies General Washington, and the Count de Grasse, by the Surrender of York-Town, in Virginia, in which were Lord Cornwallis and Army, consisting of Nine Thousand Troops, a Forty Gun Ship, Frigate, an armed Vessel and One Hundred Sail of Transports.

ID 16178
Title A Poem, Spoken Extempore, by a Young Lady, on hearing the Guns Firing and Bells chiming on account of the Great and Glorious Acquisition of their Excellencies General Washington, and the Count de Grasse, by the Surrender of York-Town, in Virginia, in which were Lord Cornwallis and Army, consisting of Nine Thousand Troops, a Forty Gun Ship, Frigate, an armed Vessel and One Hundred Sail of Transports.
Contributors
Signed Author By a Young Lady.
Pseudonym
Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination 1
Date of Publication 1781
Edition Statement
Edition Number 1
Date of First Publication 1781
Imprint Printed by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump.--At the same place may be had, Russell's American almanac, and Bickerstaff's Boston do.
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing Boston US
Format Broadside (bs)
Length (cm) 32
Width (cm) 21
Price (pound)
Price (shilling)
Price (pence)
Total Price (in pence)
Non-UK Price
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Shelfmarks
  • AAS 326845
Notes The digitizations from the ECCO and America's Historical Imprints I: Evans database differ slightly. A digitization is also available directly from the AAS catalogue (see https://gigi.mwa.org/imagearchive/filename/326845_ for a direct link to the scan).
AAS Notes:
Verse in twenty-eight lines, printed on left half of sheet beneath relief cut; first line: Honor commands great Washington I sing.
Right half of sheet contains second poem, in fifty-six lines, entitled: His Lordship humbled: or, Cornwallis's lamentation. With a relief cut flanking title. First line: Great Mars, thou god of battles won.
Dated [1782] by Bristol, but more likely printed soon after Cornwallis' surrender in October 1781. The advertisement for almanacs in the imprint also suggests that the sheet was issued late in 1781.
Printed area measures 32.1 x 18.7 cm.
Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography,
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800,
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800,
American Antiquarian Society. Wellsprings of a nation,
English short title catalogue,
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Unknown, [Woman]. A Poem, Spoken Extempore, by a Young Lady, on hearing the Guns Firing and Bells chiming on account of the Great and Glorious Acquisition of their Excellencies General Washington, and the Count de Grasse, by the Surrender of York-Town, in Virginia, in which were Lord Cornwallis and Army, consisting of Nine Thousand Troops, a Forty Gun Ship, Frigate, an armed Vessel and One Hundred Sail of Transports.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16178, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16178. Accessed 2024-04-22. 

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