Poems
By: by C. Churchill. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II]. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 41875
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1768
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [microform] /
Other titles: Poems by C. Churchill.
Notes: Made up of sheets of the third London edition, 1766, with new title pages and a list of American subscribers. Advertised by James Rivington as "this day published" in the New York gazette & weekly Mercury, Nov. 21, 1768. Bristol suggests that the list of subscribers "was probably printed in New York for Rivington."

Signatures: v. 1, [A]² B-2A⁸ 2B² (2B1 verso, 2B2 blank); v. 2, [A]² B-F⁸ G⁸(+-G8) H-X⁸ Y⁶ (Y6 blank); *A-*G⁴. Gatherings *A-*G ("Names of the subscribers") sometimes bound after the title page of v. 1.

With a half-title to each volume.

Vol. 1: [4], 369, [3] p.; v. 2: [4], 330, [2], lvi p.

Errors in paging: v. 1, p. 302 misnumbered 102; v. 2, p. 281, 297 misnumbered 182, 279.

Bristol B2911

Shipton & Mooney 41875
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The Rosciad; title: The apology; title: Night; title: The prophecy of famine; title: An epistle to William Hogarth; title: The ghost; title: v. 2. The conference; title: The author; title: The duellist; title: Gotham; title: The candidate; title: The farewell; title: The times; title: Independence; title: The journey.