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]
Edition: The third edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 11315
Publisher: Printed by John Holt at the exchange.
Published: 1769
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Notes: Attributed to Livingston in the Dictionary of American biography.

Date of publication suggested by Evans.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴.

"To the ingenious author of the poem entiteed [sic] 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 11315

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 245