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Several poems compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight; : wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse, and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year. Together with an exact epitome of the three first monarchyes, viz. the Assyrian, Persian, Grecian. And beginning of the Romane common-wealth to the end of their last king: with diverse other pleasant & serious poems,

by: Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672

Publication date: 1678

Topics: American poetry -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Imprint 1678

Publisher: Boston : Printed by John Foster

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

[14], 255, [1] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)

Author is identified as Anne Bradstreet in prefatory laudatory poems; she signs the dedication on p. 2, 2nd count

First printed under title: The tenth muse lately sprung up in America, London, 1650

Pages 252-255 contain a funeral elegy for Anne Bradstreet written by John Norton

Signatures: a⁸ (-a1) (a2 verso blank) A-Q⁸ (Q8 verso blank) (I4 missigned H4)

Errata statement: foot of p. 255

Title page printed within ornamental woodcut border; head pieces

Purchase; 0518