Art of contentment
Subtitle: with several entertaining pieces of poetry, descriptive of the present times, in the U. States of America
By: By John Searson, formerly a merchant of Philadelphia. ; [Six lines of quotation]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 31170
Publisher: Printed for the author by W. Pechin.
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Contentment
Notes: "The prose part of the 'Art of contentment,' is chiefly selected from the first European writers. Several of the pieces (those descriptive of America particularly) are my own ..."--p. vi.

Dedicated to George Washington.

Dated 1796 by Evans; however, Searson in the preface states "... and in 1797 I published a book of poems ..." The dedication would indicate publication before Washington's death in December 1799.

Signatures: [A]⁶ B-T⁶ (T6 blank).

Errors in paging: p. 151 misnumbered 120; p. 45-46 imposed in reverse order.

Evans 31170

Minick, A.R. Maryland, 393

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 349