Father Abbey's will
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 3474
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1810
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Subjects: American wit and humor
Other titles: Father Abdy's will; To my dear wife, my joy and life.
Notes: Poem in fourteen stanzas; first lines: To my dear wife, My joy and life.

Generally attributed to John Seccombe.

Reproduced as Evans 3474 in the Readex Early American imprints series. Shipton & Mooney note: Evans assumes that the first broadside printing was in 1731. This is highly improbable. An example of one of the many undated later editions is here reproduced.

Text in two columns; printed area, including three relief cuts at head, measures 23.1 x 11.4 cm.

Shipton & Mooney 3474

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 617

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 350