An Elegiac poem, composed on the never-to-be-forgotten terrible and bloody battle fought at an intrenchment on Bunker-Hill ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42809
Publisher: Printed and sold by E. Russell, next to John Turner, Esq; in the Main-Street.
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Salem [Mass.]: N.E
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Poetry; Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775; Campaigns
Other titles: Adieu to wanton songs and foolish joys.; Acrostic on the late Major-General Warren.
Notes: Verse of 160 lines; first line: Adieu to wanton songs and foolish joys.

Preceded by prose account and followed by: An Acrostic on the late Major-General Warren.

Relief cut of sixty coffins at head (Reilly 1221); illustrating the acrostic are relief cuts of a skull and crossbone (not in Reilly) and a coffin bearing the initials JW (Reilly 1209); printed area measures 47.8 x 34.0 cm.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Bristol B3969

Shipton & Mooney 42809