Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
By: By Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England
Contributors: Lewis, John A., former owner; Otis, R. M., former owner
Publisher: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-street, Boston.
Published: 1773
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: American Religious poetry
Notes: First edition; cf. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (Philadelphia: Library Co.), no. 11111; Negro history, 1553-1903 (Philadelphia. Library Co.), no. 194; and The Negro in the United States, by Dorothy B. Porter, no. 1284.

Frontispiece (trimmed and mounted) is an engraved port. of the author.

"Published ... Septr. 1st, 1773 by Archd. Bell, bookseller no. 8 near the Saracens Head Aldgate."--Front.

Signatures: A̲p4sB-Qp4s.

Advertisements: [1] p. at end. ESTC describes two states.

Also available on microfilm: History of Women reel 86, no.576.

ESTC T153734

Boston Public Library(Rare Book Dept.) copy 1: Ex libris (signature): John A. Lewis; (BPL bookplate) Mrs. John A. Lewis. Bound in 19th c. American 3/4 green morocco with marbled paper and end leaves.

Boston Public Library (Rare Book Dept.) Copy 2: signed by author and R.M. Otis.

Boston Public Library (Rare Book Dept.) : Another incomplete copy on XA.9621.1: lacks frontispiece and p. [127-8].

Boston Public Library(Rare Book Dept.) copy 1: Ex libris (signature): John A. Lewis; Bound in 19th c. American 3/4 green morocco with marbled paper and end leaves.