The lawer's [sic] pedigree
Subtitle: tune, Our Polly is a sad slut.
Contributors: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 7446.
Publisher: Printed and sold [by Zechariah Fowle] below the Mill-Bridge.
Published: 1755
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Broadsides.; Ballads.
Other titles: Our Polly is a sad slut (Tune).; Beggar had a beadle.
Work titles: Lawyer's pedigree.
Notes: Verse of fifty-six lines; first line: A beggar had a beadle.

The American Antiquarian Society copy 1 has a mounted inscription in Isaiah Thomas' hand appended at foot: Lawyer's pedigree. A ballard [sic]. Printed from the first types handled by I. Thomas in 1755, when he was 6 years of age. Thomas was apprenticed to Zechariah Fowle from 1755 to 1765. AAS Copy 2 includes ms. notes on recto and verso: Said to be written by Dean Swift. [and] This is a copy from the first types that I set for the press. It was in the summer of 1755. Isaiah Thomas.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 23.7 x 18.9 cm.

Evans 7446.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 1011.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 7446).