The following lines were composed on the death of Joseph, and John Lindsy, who were burnt to death in a cole-cabin, in Dana, Worcester County, Mass. on the night of the 23rd of December 1809 [drop title]

Dunn, Samuel

Edité par John Howe, printer, n.d., Grenwich [sic], 1810

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Quarto broadside approx. 10½" x 8". text in double column beneath a running head; paper substantially browned, a few minor losses of paper in the margins (but no loss of letterpress), previous folds; fragile, but still a good example of a rare broadside verse. With 28 numbered quatrains, the first beginning: "Nabors and friends, lend an attentive ear / Let sympathy excite a piteous tear." Signed: Samuel Dunn, New-Salem, December 27th. 1809. John Howe published at least 5 other broadside elegies by Dunn, "his favorite local poet of neighboring New Salem, who could be counted on to produce verse for any melancholy accident . on the deaths of young people by drowning, lightning, and disease" Gura, "Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts: John Howe of Greenwich and Enfield" in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 36-7. Not in American Imprints. OCLC notes only the copy at AAS, the catalogue description there noting that there is also a variant printing, published anonymously, without an imprint, and with a variant title: An elegy, composed on the death, of Joseph, and John Lindsy.".

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• Titre: The following lines were composed on the death of Joseph, and John Lindsy, who were burnt to death in a cole-cabin, in Dana, Worcester County, Mass. on the night of the 23rd of December 1809 [drop title]
• Éditeur: John Howe, printer, n.d., Grenwich [sic]
• Date de parution: 1810
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry
  • Broadsides