Jonathan's courtship
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 47420
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1795
Place of publication: [Hanover, N.H.?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Wit and humor; Love -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes
Work titles: Country lovers
Notes: Verse in twenty-eight stanzas; first line: A merry tale I will rehearse

Probably the earliest edition of Thomas Green Fessenden's "Country lovers." Although Bristol suggests New Haven as the place of publication, the broadside was more likely printed in New Hampshire about 1795 while Fessenden was a student at Dartmouth College. Cf. Perrin, Porter Gale. The life and works of Thomas Green Fessenden, 1925, p. 33-35, 186-192

Text in two columns; printed area measures 25.6 x 16.2 cm

Bristol B9096

Shipton & Mooney 47420

Wegelin, O.  Amer. poetry, 137

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47420)