Fair Lucretia’s garland

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Description

Title: Fair Lucretia’s garland
Creator: Viets, Dan, 1751-
Published / Created: September, MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Publication Place: [New Haven?]
Publisher: Printed for Dan Viets
Abstract: An apparently unrecorded eighteenth century American verse broadside. The poem recounts the tragic tale of a young merchant who falls in love with Lucretia, becomes engaged to her, then sails away to make his fortune. The text is surrounded by printer’s ornaments of four-petaled flowers, suns, and rosettes, including those used by Samuel and Thomas Green who were printing in partnership in New Haven, 1769-97.
Extent: 1 sheet
36 x 24 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Access: Public
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