Phillis Wheatley exhibition checklist
Subtitle: a bicentennial celebration, Special Collections & Rare Books Room, Tower Library, University of Masssachusetts : 1 February-13 March 1985
Contributors: Alt, Gail, printer; Bannister, Roberta, printer; Figovsky, Linda, compositor; Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784; Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784; Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot), former owner; University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Library; Aeife Press
Publisher: Aeife Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Leeds, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Bibliography; Exhibitions; Death and burial; Portraits
Notes: Title from caption.

Curator: Lisa Unger Baskin.

"This exhibition commemorates the two hundredth anniversary of the death of the African American Poet Phillis Wheatley. ... the first black to publish a book in America. We celebrate the acquisition of a copy of that book, 'Poems on various subjects religious and moral', London, 1773, as the two millionth volume of the University of Massachusetts Library, at Amherst."

On p. [4]: "One thousand copies of this check list were printed by Gail Alt and Roberta Bannister. The type is Baskerville and was set by Linda Figovsky."

Printed on cream colored paper; illustrated with a portrait of Phillis Wheatley.