Philosophic solitude: or, The choice of a rural life
Subtitle: A poem
By: By a gentleman educated at Yale College. ; [Two lines of quotations in Latin]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 5986
Publisher: Printed by James Parker
Published: 1747
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Notes: Half-title: Philosophic solitude: a poem.

Attributed to Livingston in the Dictionary of American biography.

Signatures: pi² a-b² c-f⁴ g² (g2 blank).

"To the ingenious author of the poem entitled Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. iii-vi, in verse; signed: N.W. [i.e., Noah Welles]. "To Mr. L*********, on his Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. vii-x, in verse; signed: W.P.S. [i.e., William Peartree Smith]. Cf. Sedgewick, Theodore. Memoir of the life of William Livingston (New York, 1833), p. 62.

Evans 5986

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 245