Elegant extracts
Subtitle: A copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent poets. : Volume I[-VI] ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 41210
Publisher: Published by Kirk & Mercein, 22, Wall-Street.
Published: 1817
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Notes: Compiled by Vicesimus Knox.

Each volume comprises two books; each book has an engraved title page. Engraved title pages have illustrations by Richard Cook, T. Stothard, W. Westall, R. Westall, H. Corbould, and W.H. Brooke.

"T. & W. Mercein, printers, no. 93 Gold-Street, New-York."--versos of title pages, v. 1-3.

"William A. Mercein, printer, no 93 Gold-Street, New-York."--versos of title pages, v. 4-6.

Shaw & Shoemaker 41210

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Table of contents: title: V. I. Book I. II. Devotional and moral; title: V. II. Book III. IV. Didactic (including fables,) descriptive, narrative, and pastoral; title: V. III. Book V. VI. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes.; title: Elegiac and funeral: including monodies and epitaphs; title: V. IV. Book VII. VIII. Dramatic; title: V. V. Book IX. X. Ballads, songs, and sonnets, and satirical and humorous pieces; title: V. VI. Book XI. XII. Consisting of larger poems.