Poems on several subjects / written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher in a barn, in the county of Wilts, at the wages of four shillings and six-pence per week: ; which were publickly read in the drawing-room at Windsor-Castle, on Friday the 11th of September, 1730, to Her Majesty; who was thereupon most graciously pleased to take the author into her royal protection, by allotting him a salary of thirty pounds per annum, and a small house in Richmond in Surrey to live in, for the better support of himself and family.

Author/creator Duck, Stephen
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBoston : Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1732.
Description24 pages ; 17 cm (8vo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 3531. ^A478749
General noteNot in Evans or Bristol.
General note"Some account of the author's life."--p. 2-3.
References Evans 3531
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 3531).
Genre/formPoems 1732.

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