A Poem, spoken extempore, by a young lady [electronic resource] : on hearing the guns firing and bells chiming on account of the great and glorious acquisition of their Excellencies Gen. Washington and the C. de Grasse, by the surrender of York-Town ...

A Poem, spoken extempore, by a young lady [electronic resource] : on hearing the guns firing and bells chiming on account of the great and glorious acquisition of their Excellencies Gen. Washington and the C. de Grasse, by the surrender of York-Town ...

[Boston] : Printed by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump.--At the same place may be had, Russell's American almanac, and Bickerstaff's Boston do, [1781]

1 sheet : ill. (relief cuts) ; 35 x 21 cm

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Verse in twenty-eight lines, printed on left half of sheet beneath relief cut; first line: Honor commands great Washington I sing.

Right half of sheet contains second poem, in fifty-six lines, entitled: His Lordship humbled: or, Cornwallis's lamentation. With a relief cut flanking title. First line: Great Mars, thou god of battles won.

Dated [1782] by Bristol, but more likely printed soon after Cornwallis' surrender in October 1781. The advertisement for almanacs in the imprint also suggests that the sheet was issued late in 1781.

Printed area measures 32.1 x 18.7 cm.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides

Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B5572
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 44247
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W1010

His Lordship humbled: or, Cornwallis's lamentation.

United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

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