The first book of the American chronicles of the times. Chap. IV.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Boston] :
Sold opposite the Court-House, in Queen-Street,
[1775]
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| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 42821. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | The events preceding the American Revolution, related in mock-Biblical style. Caption title. 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). "... 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). Imprint from colophon. Date of publication supplied by Bristol. Two booksellers are known to have had shops in Queen Street at this time: Daniel Kneeland, and the partnership of Edes & Gill. An ornament used on the title page (a paragraph mark) was used by Kneeland in his printings of the other chapters of this work. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | pages [25]-32 ; 20 cm. (quarto) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |