Truxton's victory---
Subtitle: together with The beggar girl---and Two strings to my bow
Contributors: Chandler, John Westbrooke, 1769-1805; Colman, George, 1762-1836
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 21536.
Publisher: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly Jun'r. corner of Theatre Alley.--Boston.
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Subjects: Beggars in literature; Love poetry; Poetry; History
Other titles: Beggar girl; Two strings to my bow; Brave Truxton on the briny waves; Over the mountains and over the moor; How happy the woman, whose charms
Notes: Three poems.

The beggar girl attributed to John W. Chandler, and Two strings to my bow attributed to George Colman, Jr. in Philbrick, Thomas L. "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.

Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. I, no. 106, presented to the society in August 1814.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 21.6 x 18.4 cm.

Shaw & Shoemaker 21536

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3378

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 280
Table of contents: title: Truxton's victory (first lines: Brave Truxton on the briny waves, he meets his gallic foe); title: The beggar girl (first lines: Over the mountains and over the moor, hungry and barefooted, I wander'd forlorn); title: Two strings to my bow (first lines: How happy the woman, whose charms gain sweet-hearts stuck all in a row!)