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. 9160
Publisher: New-York: Printed, MDCCXLVII. Boston: Reprinted and sold by B. Mecom, at the new printing-office, near the Town-House.
Published: 1762
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Notes: Attributed to Livingston in the Dictionary of American biography.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-F⁴ (F4 blank).

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

Evans 9160

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 245