MARC Record from Miami University of Ohio

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090 $aPS530$b.E375 no. 42819
100 1 $aLeacock, John,$d1729-1802
245 14 $aThe first book of the American chronicles of the times.$nChap. V$h[microform]
260 $aNew-York: :$bPrinted and sold by J. Anderson.,$c[1775?]
300 $ap. [1], 48-58 ;$c(12mo)
500 $aThe events preceding the American Revolution, related in mock-Biblical style
500 $aCaption title
500 $aBy John Leacock. Leacock's play, "The fall of British tyranny," was advertised in the Constitutional gazette, July 3, 1776, as "by the author of the American chronicles of the times." Cf. Carla Mulford's Introduction to "John Leacock's The first book of the American chronicles of the times, 1774-1775" (Newark : University of Delaware Press, 1987)
500 $a"... said to be wrote by that great patriot ... S----l A---s [i.e., Samuel Adams], Esquire, a member for this province in the Grand American Continental Congress."--from an advertisement for the work in: The Wonder of wonders ... 2nd ed., Salem, Mass. : E. Russell, 1775. A portrait of Adams appears on the title page of Russell's edition of the work (Salem, 1774)
500 $aImprint from colophon
510 4 $aBristol$cB3980
510 4 $aShipton & Mooney$c42819
530 $aDigital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series
533 $aMicrofiche.$b[New York :$cReadex Microprint,$d1985]$e11 x 15 cm.$f(Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42819)
630 00 $aBible.$pO.T.$vParodies, imitations, etc
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$vAnecdotes
700 1 $aAdams, Samuel,$d1722-1803
752 $aUnited States$bNew York$dNew York
830 0 $aEarly American imprints.$nFirst series ;$vno. 42819
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