• Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.

Collections:

• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
• In the Company of Good Books
• African American Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9922783423506421

Language:

• English

Creator:

• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784

Call number:

• 3984.8.372
• PS866 .W5 1773
• EX Lapidus 3.30
• RHT American-316

Extent:

• v, [1] p., 1 ., [9]-124, [4] p. front. (port.) 17.1 cm.

Format:

• Book

Type:

• Poetry

Publisher:

• London, Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-street, Boston, 1773.

Subject:

• Poetry

Author:

• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784

Date:

• 1773

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcqb98ms49c

References:

• ESTC T153734

Available online:

• Digital content
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Description:

• First edition; cf. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (Philadelphia: Library Co.), no. 11111; Negro history, 1553-1903 (Philadelphia. Library Co.), no. 194; and The Negro in the United States, by Dorothy B. Porter, no. 1284.
• Frontispiece is an engraved port. of the author.
• "Published ... Septr. 1st, 1773 by Archd. Bell, bookseller no. 8 near the Saracens Head Aldgate."--Front.
• Signatures: [A]-Q⁴.