William Riley: together with The Sailor Boy.

ID 16254
Title William Riley: together with The Sailor Boy.
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Signed Author Anonymous
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Self-published No
Volumes 1
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Date of Publication 1810
Edition Statement
Edition Number 1
Date of First Publication 1810
Imprint N. Coverly, Jr. Printer, Milk-Street, Boston.
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing Boston US
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Length (cm) 30
Width (cm) 24
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Notes Published between 1810 and 1814. AAS Notes: A song and a poem.
William Riley, first line: Rise up William Riley, and come along with me.
The Sailor boy, first line: The sea was calm, the sky serene. These lines are the first two stanzas of The little sailor boy, written by Susanna Rowson and included in her Miscellaneous poems, Boston, 1804, p. [210]-211.
Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 53, presented to the society in August 1814.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 21.9 x 20.9 cm.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800,
Ford, W.C. Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads,
Hand-Verified No
Verified No
Attempted Verification Yes

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Rowson, Susanna. William Riley: together with The Sailor Boy.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16254, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16254. Accessed 2025-10-29.

Rowson, Susanna. William Riley: together with The Sailor Boy. Boston: 1810. 

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