Sorrowful Sam the black-smith.

ID 18802
Title Sorrowful Sam the black-smith.
Contributors
Signed Author [Anonymous]
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Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination 36
Date of Publication 1807
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Imprint Published by B. Johnson, no. 247 Market St. Philadelphia.
Colophon
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Location of Printing Philadelphia US
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Length (cm) 15
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Notes AAS Notes:
Engraved title page.
Caption title: Sorrowful Sam; or, The two blacksmiths.
Attributed to Sarah More in Weis, H.B. Hannah More's cheap repository tracts in America, 1946, p. 18.
In another issue the engraved title is re-engraved as "Sorrowful Sam the blacksmith" and the plate is bound in as a frontispiece.
Dated ca. 1807 in Rosenbach, A.S.W. Early American children's books, 1933, p. 140.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821,
Catalogued
American Antiquarian Society copy the gift of Charles Henry Taylor, 1935. Inscribed: Year 1825 Isaac S. Bixby, Hopkinton of Middlesex Massachusetts; I.S. Bixby; Ann Johnson, instructress, Framingham.
Hand-Verified No
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Attempted Verification Yes

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More, Sarah. Sorrowful Sam the black-smith.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 18802, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/18802. Accessed 2025-12-06.

More, Sarah. Sorrowful Sam the black-smith. Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson [247 Market Street], 1807.

More , S. (1807). Sorrowful sam the black-smith. Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson [247 Market Street]

More, Sarah. Sorrowful Sam the black-smith. Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson [247 Market Street], 1807. 

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