Poems written and published during the American Revolutionary War, and now republished from the original manuscripts; : interspersed with translations from the ancients, and other pieces not heretofore in print. By Philip Freneau. The third edition, in two volumes.

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Title Poems written and published during the American Revolutionary War, and now republished from the original manuscripts; : interspersed with translations from the ancients, and other pieces not heretofore in print. By Philip Freneau. The third edition, in two volumes.
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Signed Author By Philip Freneau.
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Volumes 2
Pagination I 289; II 302
Date of Publication 1809
Edition Statement The third edition, in two volumes.
Edition Number 3
Date of First Publication
Imprint From the press of Lydia R. Bailey, no. 10, North-Alley.
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Location of Printing Philadelphia US
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 18
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Notes AAS Notes:
Engraved frontispiece to each volume signed: Joh: Eckstein.
Edition statement transposed; precedes volume enumeration on title page.
Two states of v. 2 noted. In the first, p. 269 is misnumbered 239; in the second, p. 269 is numbered correctly.
"In both volumes the extraneous material (title page, frontispiece, and subscribers' list) is sometimes bound at the front and sometimes at the back. ... There are numerous journal entries on the distribution of this title; 1,500 copies were printed."--Cf. Nipps.
"Copyright secured according to law."--verso of title page, v. 2.
"From many places to which subscription papers had been requested to be forwarded, no returns of names have been yet made. Subscribers in such places, however, are informed, that they will be supplied with these volumes on the same terms as the subscribers in the following list, provided they make a speedy application at this office; as the present edition is small, and in great part engaged."--p. vi, 2nd count.
Vol. 1: [2], iv, [1], 4-280 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 302, xii, [1] leaf of plates.
"Contents of vol. II."--v. 2, p. [i]-vi, 2nd count.
"Errata."--p. vi, 2nd count.
"Subscribers' names."--v. 2, p. [vii]-xii, 2nd count.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Felcone, J.J. New Jersey books, 1801-1860,
Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature,
Wegelin, O. Early American poetry,
Stoddard, R.E. Bibliographical description of books and pamphlets of American verse printed from 1610 through 1820,
Nipps, K. Lydia Bailey,
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American Antiquarian Society copy has the first state of v. 2, with p. 269 misnumbered 239. Received in exchanged with Yale University, 1910; has its bookplate stating that the set was purchased with the income of the Edward Wells Southworth fund, 1909, as well as its duplicate stamp. Has Brinley label.
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Freneau, Philip Morin. Poems written and published during the American Revolutionary War, and now republished from the original manuscripts; : interspersed with translations from the ancients, and other pieces not heretofore in print. By Philip Freneau. The third edition, in two volumes.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21289, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21289. Accessed 2024-04-28. 

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