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A Poem Descriptive of the Terrible Fire, Which made such shocking Devastation in BOSTON, on FRIDAY EVENING, the Twentieth of April, 1787, in which were consumed One House of Worship, of which the Reverend Ebenezer Wight was Pastor, and upwards of One Hundred Dwelling-Houses and other Buildings - The Loss of Property by this sorrowful Disaster is supposed to amount to near Seventy Thousand Pounds. ---- Composed by Miss H ----h W----n.
[Boston: Ezekiel Russell, 1787] Sold next Lib. Pole: Where may be also had, the Particulars of the late Fire, and a Poem composed by Miss J---y F-o, a Sufferer. [At foot of sheet]
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Folio Broadside, measuring 20 x 10 ½ inches, illustrated with a relief cut of the conflagration at head, verse in seventeen stanzas, separated by a double row of ornaments and the quotation: "Shall there be Evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it." Formerly folded, separations at fold joints, upper left hand corner clipped, old tape stains on verso, some minor foxing, else a good copy.
An apparently unrecorded variant of this rare broadside, with some textual differences and differences in the imprint information from both Bristol 6629 and 6630, Ford 2503 and Shipton-Mooney 45139 and 45140, and Sabin 100864. This variant not mentioned in relevant bibliographies, OCLC, etc.
