Poems on several occasions
By: by a gentleman of Virginia; edited by Earl Gregg Swem.
Contributors: Dawson, William, 1705?-1752, supposed author.; Swem, E. G. 1870-1965, ed.; Heartman, Charles F. 1883-1953.
Series: Heartman's historical series; no. 33
Publisher: Reprinted for C. F. Heartman
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Notes: "61 copies printed on handmade paper"; this copy not numbered.
With reproduction of original t.-p. (with autograph of Geo. Washington) "Williamsburg: Printed and sold by William Parks, M,DCC,XXXVI."
"The first collection of poems printed in Virginia. The copy from which the present volume is reprinted, is in the Boston athenaeum, and is the only copy known to be extant."--Introd.
Plausibly attributed to William Dawson, 1705?-1752, president of William and Mary college (1743-1752) by Harold L. Dean (in Papers of the Bibliographical society of America, v. 31 (1937) pt. 1, p. 10-20)