Printed in two columns divided by single broken line.
At left of title wood-engraving of woman wearing dress and three-cornered hat, holding powder horn and musket; variant of Reilly 1554, identified as representing the female soldier Hannah Snell.
Printed area: 31 x 18 cm.
Typeface, wood-engraving and design suggest E. Russell as printer.
"Sweet Poll of Plymouth" is ascribed to John O'Keeffe by Thomas L. Philbrick in "Studies in bibliography: papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virgina", v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.
Not in Shipton & Mooney or Shaw & Shoemaker.
Ezekiel Russell is known to have moved to Boston in 1781 where he died in 1796; his wife continued his business.
Broadsides are single-sheet publications, often issued as ephemera or announcements. The Harris Broadsides Collection is a comprehensive collection of American poetry published in broadside format from colonial times to the present. The collection offers materials covering a broad spectrum of …
