The silver key, or A fancy to truth and a warning to youth
Subtitle: Shewing the benefit of money, and the contempt of the poor, under the term of a silver key
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 22341
Publisher: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. corner of Theatre-Alley, Milk-Street, Boston
Published: 1811
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Poverty; Poetry; Wealth
Notes: Verse in two parts; first line: The silver key, doth bear the sway. Signed: From your servant, poor George Beverstoc [i.e., Beverstock].

American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. I, no. 6.

Text in three columns; printed area measures 22.6 x 18.8 cm.

Shaw & Shoemaker 22341

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 244

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.