| Item Description: | Advertised in the April 2, 1750, issue of the Boston evening post: This day is published, and sold by T. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill. - Attributed to Joseph Green by Evans, Ford, and Wegelin. Cf. Sibley's Harvard graduates, v. 8, p. 42-53. - English Short Title Catalog, W26280. - Evans, 6512. - Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 915. - Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library. - Text in two columns; surrounded by mourning border. - Verse, in twelve stanzas, lamenting, in a satirical fashion, the withdrawal from circulation of certain issues of paper currency in Massachusetts. First line: A doleful tale prepare to hear. - Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 187 |
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