Miscellaneous Poems, With Several Specimens from the Author's Manuscript Version of the Poems of Ossian. Published Agreeably to an Act of Congress.

SEWALL (Jonathan Mitchell)

Published by Portsmouth New Hampsire: Printed by William Treadwell & Co. For the Author, 1801

FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 152 x 98 mms., pp. 304, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; spine and corners worn, joints weak but holding; a fair copy. The American lawyer and poet Jonathan Mitchell Sewall (1748 1808) was the son of Mitchell Sewall and Elizabeth Price. He made a more-or-less enduring name for himself with his song "War and Washington," which was popular, at least with the rebellious colonials, during the American Revolution. As it was sung to the tune of "The British Grenadiers," I forebear any suggestion of what the British might have thought of it. The book itself seems uncommon. OCLC lists a number of digital copies, but the only real book that I could locate was in the BL, but there is a copy in the Library of Congress and in one east coast library in the United States. Seller Inventory # 10197

Bibliographic Details

Title: Miscellaneous Poems, With Several Specimens ...
Publisher: Portsmouth New Hampsire: Printed by William Treadwell & Co. For the Author
Publication Date: 1801
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition