Bloody butchery, by the British troops; or The runaway fight of the regulars : Being the particulars of the victorious battle fought at and near Concord ... between two thousand regular troops, belonging to His Britannic Majesty, and a few hundred provincial troops ... : To which is annexed, a funeral elegy on those who were slain in the battle.

Format Microform
Publication Info[Salem, Mass.] : [Printed and sold by E. Russell], [1775]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 55 x 47 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 42772
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42772. ^A478749
General note"From E. Russell's Salem Gazette, or the Newbury and Marblehead Advertiser, published on Friday, April 21, 1775." Also includes information dated Salem, April 25 (from the Essex gazette), and Salem, May 5. The funeral elegy appeared in the May 26 issue of the Essex journal and Merrimack packet.
General noteFor an account of other editions of this title, see Streeter, Thomas W. Americana--beginnings, Morristown, N.J., 1952, p. 49-51.
General noteImprint supplied by Streeter.
General noteRelief cut of forty coffins, with the names of the dead, at head (cf. Reilly 1218); printed area measures 46.7 x 33.8 cm.
References Bristol B3929
References Shipton & Mooney 42772
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1792
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42772).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formElegies.
Contains title Funeral elegy, to the immortal memory of those worthies who were slain in the Battle of Concord, April 19, 1775.

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