The First book of the American chronicles of the times
Subtitle: Chap. II
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42815
Publisher: Printed and sold by D. Kneeland, in Queen Street. Where also may be had the first & 3d chapters.
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Parodies, imitations; History; Humor; Bible
Other titles: American chronicles of the times.
Notes: The events preceding the American Revolution, related in mock-Biblical style.

Caption title.

"... said to be wrote by that great patriot ... S----l A---s [i.e., Samuel Adams], Esquire, a member for this province in the Grand American Continental Congress."--from an advertisement for the work in: The Wonder of wonders ... 2nd ed., Salem, Mass. : E. Russell, 1775. A portrait of Adams appears on the title page of Russell's edition of the work (Salem, 1774).

Imprint from colophon. Date of publication supplied by Bristol.

Two states of the colophon noted. One is as given above; the other reads: Printed and sold by D. Kneeland, in Queen Street. Where also may be had the first chapter.

A third wording of the colophon (Boston: Printed and sold by D. Kneeland in Queen-Street. Where also may be had compleat setts.) appears on a later edition (Evans 13795).

Signatures: [A]⁴.

Bristol B3976

Shipton & Mooney 42815