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The Speech of Death to Levi Ames : Who was executed on Boston-Neck, October 21, 1773, for the crime of burglary.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Revere, Paul, 1735-1818 (Engraver)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Series:Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 42508.
Subjects:
Ames, Levi, > 1752-1773.
Death > Poetry.
Executions and executioners > Massachusetts > Boston.
Crime > Massachusetts.
Burglary > Massachusetts.
Broadsides.
Poems > 1773.
Online Access:Evans Digital Edition
Description
Item Description:Verse of seventy lines; first line: I Death, poor Ames, pronounce your fate.
Relief cut depicting a skeleton conversing with a man (Reilly 1195) was executed by Paul Revere for John Boyle in 1773; cf. Brigham, C.S. Paul Revere's engravings, Worcester, 1954, page 136.
Text in two columns.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut)
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Place of Publication:United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.