The death of General Wolf. A song.

People / Organizations

• Thomas Paine (Author)

Imprint

[United States: s.n, not before 1775 and not after 1810]

Publication year

?

ESTC No.

W1275

Grub Street ID

322040

Description

1 sheet ; 23 x 12 cm

Note

Song in four stanzas; first line: In a mouldering cave, a wretched retreat.

Written by Thomas Paine between 1768 and 1774, and first printed in America in the March, 1775, issue of the Pennsylvania magazine. Cf. Hawke, David Freeman. Paine. New York, 1974, p. 15, 30.

Use of the long "s" suggests imprint date before 1810.

Printed area measures 21.1 x 8.0 cm.

Uncontrolled note

Not in Evans