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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: first book of the American chronicles of the times
    part number: Chap. I
  title info:
    title: American chronicles of the times
  name:
    name part: Leacock, John
    name part: 1729-1802
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Adams, Samuel
    name part: 1722-1803
  type of resource: text
  genre: Satires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 1774
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 8 pages ; 18 cm. (duodecimo)
  note: The events preceding the American Revolution, related in mock-Biblical style.
  note: Caption title.
  note: By John Leacock. Leacock's play, "The fall of British tyranny," was advertised in the Constitutional gazette, July 3, 1776, as "by the author of the American chronicles of the times." Cf. Carla Mulford's Introduction to "John Leacock's The first book of the American chronicles of the times, 1774-1775" (Newark : University of Delaware Press, 1987).
  note: "... said to be wrote by that great patriot ... S----l A---s [i.e., Samuel Adams], Esquire, a member for this province in the Grand American Continental Congress."--from an advertisement for the work in: The Wonder of wonders ... 2nd edition, Salem, Mass. : E. Russell, 1775. A portrait of Adams appears on the title page of Russell's edition of the work (Salem, 1774).
  note: Imprint supplied by Bristol. The ornament on the title page (a pointing hand) was used by Boyle in his other editions of this work.
  note: The Huntington Library has Boyle's edition of chapters 2 and 3 (Evans 13794 and 13797) bound with it; these are recorded by Shipton & Money as part of 42596 and were so filmed by Readex.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Bristol B3734
  note: Shipton & Mooney 42596
  note: Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
  note: Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42596).
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Old Testament
    genre: Parodies, imitations, etc
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    hierarchical geographic:
      country: United States
      state: Massachusetts
      city: Boston
  related item:
    note: Bristol B3734
  related item:
    note: Shipton & Mooney 42596
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early American imprints. no. 42596
      part number: Series I
      part name: Evans (1639-1800)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    location:
      url: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MWA
    record creation date: 830811
    record change date: 20260331150820.3
    record identifier: in00002137697