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Title from title screen (last viewed Mar. 06, 2000)

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"Published ... Sept. 1st, 1773 by Archd. Bell, bookseller no. 8 near the Sarcens Head Aldgate."--Front.

Frontispiece (trimmed and mounted) is an engraved port. of the author.

Signed by author.

Transcribed from: Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / by Phillis Wheatley, negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England. London : Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate, and sold by Messers. Cox and Berry King-street, Boston, 1773. v, [1] p., 1 l., [9]-124, [3] p. : port. ; 18 cm.

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