PAEAN TO AMERICA’S FIRST PRESIDENT
[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.
An Eulogy on the Life of General George Washington, who died at Mount Vernon, December 14th, 1799, in the 68th year of his age, written at the request of the citizens of Newburyport, and delivered at the first Presbyterian Meeting-House in that town, January 2nd. 1800.
Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.
8vo, pp. [3]–22, wanting half-title and the terminal blank; toned, but a good copy; in modern cloth.
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An Eulogy on the Life of General George Washington, who died at Mount Vernon, December 14th, 1799, in the 68th year of his age, written at the request of the citizens of Newburyport, and delivered at the first Presbyterian Meeting-House in that town, January 2nd. 1800.
First edition of this eulogy on Washington, ‘the saviour of your country’ and ‘father of his people’. This is the issue with urn woodcut on the final verso. Thomas Paine (1773–1811, not to be confused with the author of Common Sense) later changed his name to that of his father, Robert Treat Paine, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence.
ESTC W32120; Evans 38178.
