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<dl><dd>"Edited by Elihu Hubbard Smith"--Evans</dd>
<dd>"A second volume was ... abandoned, when the Editor, who was a native of Litchfield, removed to New York in the following year"--Evans</dd>
<dd>Preface dated: Litchfield (Connecticut) June 1793</dd>
<dd>"[R]egarded as the first general collection of American poetry"--NUC</dd>
<dd>Printers' monogram device on title page. The University of Miami reports a variant with a small ornament in place of the monogram device. Cf. ESTC</dd>
<dd>Printed at the foot of the t.p.: The copy-right secured as the act directs</dd>
<dd>"List of subscribers": final pp. [1-6]</dd>
<dd>With a final leaf of errata</dd>
<dd>Signatures: [pi]⁴ C-U⁴ W⁴ X-2R⁴</dd>
<dd>NLM copy has the small ornament in place of the monogram device on the t.p</dd>
<dd>NLM copy has two blank conjugate leaves after [pi]4</dd>
<dd>"Epitaph on a patient killed by a cancer quack": pp. 137-139-- "An oration," occasioned by a dispute between two groups of medical students in Philadelphia, and ascribed by the editor to Francis Hopkinson: pp. 143-153</dd>
<dd>Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.</dd>
<dd>Evans</dd>
<dd>Sabin</dd>
<dd>Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut</dd>
<dd>Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry</dd>
<dd>ESTC (RLIN)</dd>
<dd>Microfilm</dd>
<dd>NLM copy provenance: stamp of the Mercantile Library Association; ownership inscription of Walter R. Steiner; gift of Steiner</dd>
<dd>NLM copy bound in contemporary mottled sheepskin; re-backed with goatskin</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed</dd>
<dd>digitized</dd></dl><br>Subjects: American Revolution; Dissent and Disputes; Poetry as Topic; Quackery</div>
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<dl><dd>Hopkins, Lemuel, 1750-1801. Epitaph on a patient killed by a cancer quack</dd>
<dd>Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791. Oration</dd>
<dd>Smith, E. H. (Elihu Hubbard), 1771-1798, editor</dd>
<dd>Collier, Thomas, 1761-1842, printer</dd>
<dd>Buel, David, 1747-1836, printer</dd>
<dd>Steiner, Walter Ralph, 1870-1942, former owner</dd></dl></div>
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