Meditations and contemplations
Subtitle: in two volumes. Containing. Vol. I. Meditations among the tombs. Reflections on a flower-garden; and, A descant upon creation. Vol. II. Contemplations on the night. Contemplations on the starry heavens; and, A winter-piece
By: By James Hervey, A.B. late of Lincoln-College, Oxford. ; Volume I[-II]
Edition: The eighth edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43471
Publisher: America: Boston: Printed for, and sold by Martha Leverett, in Cornhill
Published: 1778
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Devotional literature
Notes: Vol. 1 dedicated to Miss R.T.; v. 2 dedicated to Paul Orchard.

Edition statement transposed; precedes "Volume I." on title page.

Reissue of the sheets of the 1750 edition printed by Daniel Fowle and Daniel Gookin (Evans 6516), gathering A only having been reset.

Vol. 2 has imprint: Boston: New-England, Printed and sold by Daniel Fowle in Queen Street, and by Daniel Gookin in Marlborough-Street. 1750.

Signatures: A-N⁸ O⁴ ²A-N⁸ ²O⁴.

Vol. 1 contains poems addressed to Hervey by Moses Browne, John Duick and "a physician."

Booksellers' advertisements, v. 2, p. [199-200].

Bristol B4699

Shipton & Mooney 43471