A Prospective view of death
Subtitle: being, a solemn warning to inconsiderate youth, occasioned by the trial and condemnation of Levi Ames, aged twenty-two years, who was convicted of burglary, and received sentence of death, Sept. 10, 1773. Who is soon finally to leave the world, and launch into an awful eternity. : To which is added, his trial and life. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42485
Publisher: Printed and sold by E. Russell, next the cornfield, Union-Street, near the market.
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Death; Poetry; Executions and executioners; Crime; Burglary
Other titles: Attend, ye people here conven'd.
Notes: Verse in eighteen numbered stanzas; first line: Attend, ye people here conven'd.

Text of poem in three columns, narrative of Ames' trial and life in two columns below poem; Relief cuts of a coffin (Reilly 1207) and a skull (not in Reilly) flanking title; printed area measures 41.6 x 33.5 cm.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Bristol B3622

Shipton & Mooney 42485