Theft and murder! : A poem on the execution of Levi Ames, which is to be on Thursday, the 21st of October inst. for robbing the h[o]use of Mr. Martin Bicker, and was convicted of burglary.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Boston] : Sold [by Isaiah Thomas] near the Mill-Bridge: and at the printing office near the market, [1773] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 28 x 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42518. ^A478749 |
| General note | Lamenting that the burglar must hang, while murder (i.e., the Boston Massacre) goes unavenged. |
| General note | Verse of sixty-four lines; first line: Come, ye spectators, and behold. |
| General note | Place and date of publication supplied by Bristol. Ascribed to the press of Isaiah Thomas by the Houghton Library. |
| General note | Text in two columns; relief cut of an execution at head of title. |
| References | Bristol B3657 |
| References | Shipton & Mooney 42518 |
| References | Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1648 |
| References | Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 792 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic 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. 42518). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1773. |