Author: Winslow, Ola Elizabeth
Title: American Broadside Verse
Description: New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 1930. Hardcover. Brown quarter-bound hardcover book with the title printed in black on a beige plate pasted to the spine. The front cover is illustrated in green and the title is printed in black lettering. Pages: (10), ix-xxvi, (1), 2-224, (4). Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. Copy 233 of 500. "The specimens reproduced in this volume illustrate the several kinds of verse printed in broadside in America from about the middle of the seventeenth century, the date of the first extant imprints, to the end of the eighteenth century, when the newspaper had put an end to this type of imprint as a vital response to contemporay life. A few later imprints are included, but only of verses known to have been printed in broadside before the end of the eighteenth century. For convenience of reference and comparison, the broadsides included are grouped according to their general subject matter. The selections chosen represent the earliest available imprint in each of the several groups, and enough later specimens to indicate range and diversity of treatment. VG+: Contains some pencil marks; otherwise, clean pages and solid binding. There is a small hole in the spine that does not affect any text or binding.

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