{"other_titles": ["Withering flowers."], "publishers": ["Printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Boone, at the sign of the Bible in Cornhill"], "subtitle": "An essay, upon withering flowers. Or, Mankind considered, as first flourishing, and then withering.", "lc_classifications": ["BX7230 .M25"], "key": "/books/OL6973767M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL18667A"}], "publish_places": ["Boston"], "contributions": ["American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)"], "pagination": "1 p. l., 36 p.", "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part01.dat:175700714:1220", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part02.utf8:40457816:1216", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.02.20150123.full.mrc:289393761:1252", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_036.bib.mrc:262087246:2040"], "title": "Vita brevis.", "lccn": ["06030332"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Signatures: A\u00b2\u207b\u2076, B-C\u2076, D\u00b2.\nTitle within mourning border.\nCaption title: Withering flowers. Boston, 14. d. I. m. 1714.\nA funeral sermon on the death of Mr. Leonard Dowding and a child, William Thomas. cf. p. 30 and 34.\nHolmes 433."}, "number_of_pages": 36, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "publish_date": "1714", "publish_country": "mau", "by_statement": "In a sermon, preached on, the joyful death of a valuable youth; and the awful death of a desirable child, in the north part of Boston. By Cotton Mather, D.D. ...", "oclc_numbers": ["10770838"], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL93032W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-23T11:28:29.332166"}}