The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 3 (of 3)Freneau, Philip Morin
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The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 3 (of 3)
Freneau, Philip Morin
American poetry
Philadelphia:| Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street.| M. DCC. LXXXI.|
12mo; pp. [3]-23.
See Vol. II, p. 18, _supra_. _Copies_: BU, LCP, NYHS.
1783
New Year Verses,| Addressed to those Gentlemen who have been | pleased
to favour Francis Wrigley, News Car-|rier, with their Custom.| January
1, 1783.| Folio, broadside.
See Vol. II, p. 197, _supra_. _Copy_: C.
1783
New Year's Verses, addressed to The Customers of the Pennsylvania
Evening Post, by the Printer's Lad who carries it. January 4, 1783.
This is known only through the version in the 1786 edition of
Freneau's poems, pp. 383-385. It was undoubtedly first issued
as a broadside.
1783
New Year's | Verses | Addressed to the Customers of | The Freeman's
Journal,| By the Lad who carries it.| January 8th, 1783.| Folio,
broadside.
See Vol. II, p. 198, _supra_. _Copy_: C.
1784
New-Year | Verses, | For those who Carry the | Pennsylvania Gazette | to
the | Customers.| January 1, 1784.| Small folio, broadside.
Reprinted in the 1786 edition, pp. 387-388; in the 1795 edition, p.
265; and in the 1809 edition, Vol. II, pp. 161-162. In the two latter
versions, with the title changed to "A News-man's Address," the
original first line:
"How things are chang'd since last New Year"
was altered to read:
"What tempests gloomed the by-past year--"
See Vol. II, p. 238, _supra_. _Copy_: HSP.
1784
New Year's Verses, Addressed To the Customers of the Freeman's Journal,
by the Lad who carries it. January 7, 1784.
The original broadside has not been found. The only version at present
known is in the 1786 edition, pp. 389-390. See Vol. II, p. 240,
_supra_.
1785
New Year's Verses, addressed to the Customers of the Freeman's Journal,
by the Lad who Carries it. January 1, 1785.
The first trace of this is to be found in the 1786 edition,
pp. 391-393. It was doubtless first issued as a broadside.
See Vol. II, p. 284, _supra_.
1786
New Year's Verses, for 1786. [Written for the Carriers of the _Columbian
Herald_.]
The first trace to be found of this is in the 1788 edition,
pp. 142-144. This is signed "Charleston (S. C.) _Jan. 1786_."
It doubtless appeared as a broadside. See Vol. II, p. 301, _supra_.
1786
The | Poems | of | Philip Freneau.| Written chiefly during the late
War.|
Philadelphia:| Printed by Francis Bailey, at | Yorick's Head, in Market
street. | M DCC LXXXVI.|
Small 8vo; pp. [v]-vii, [1]-407.
This is the first collected edition of Freneau's poems. See Vol. I,
p. xxxix-xli, _supra_. _Copies_: BM, BPL, BU, C, HSP, LCP, MHS, NA,
NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU.
1787
A | Journey | from | Philadelphia | to | New-York, | by Way of
Burlington and South-Amboy.| By | Robert Slender, Stocking Weaver.|
Extracted from the Author's Journals.| [_Quotation of two lines
from Horace._]
Philadelphia; Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in |
Market-street.| M DCC LXXXVII.| 12mo; pp. vi, [7]-28.
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