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Ein einfältiges Reim-Gedichte : welches Christoph Saur gemacht hat auf seinen Namen und Geburts-Tag, als er sechzig Jahr alt war den 26sten September, 1781 : Mel. Meine Sorgen Angst und Plagen.

Title
Ein einfältiges Reim-Gedichte : welches Christoph Saur gemacht hat auf seinen Namen und Geburts-Tag, als er sechzig Jahr alt war den 26sten September, 1781 : Mel. Meine Sorgen Angst und Plagen.
Author
Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784.
Publication
[Germantown, Pa.? : Leibert and Billmeyer?, 1784?]

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Additional Authors
  • Leibert, Peter, 1727-1812.
  • Billmeyer, Michael, 1752-1837.
Description
4 p.; 19 cm (8vo)
Subject
  • Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784 > Poetry
  • Church of the Brethren > Poetry
  • Christian poetry, German
  • Acrostics
Genre/Form
  • Acrostics – United States – 18th century.
  • Acrostics (Poetry)
Note
  • Caption title.
  • In 13 numbered stanzas of 8 lines each. Each stanza begins with a successive letter of the name "Christoph Saur."
  • Entered by Evans among imprints for 1781; dated 1781 by Sabin and Wegelin. Edwin Wolf believes that this was printed upon Sower's death in 1784 by Leibert and Billmeyer, Sower's business successors in Germantown. Cf. Germantown and the Germans : an exhibition . . . from the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 1983. p. 103, no. 14.
  • Printed in gothic type, with letters of the acrostic in roman type. Another ed. is known, containing [8] p. (first and last blank), with letters of the acrostic in gothic type. Cf. Bötte & Tannhof, 561.
  • Type flower headpiece.
Indexed In (note)
  • ESTC
  • Sabin
  • Evans
  • Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry
  • Bötte & Tannhof. German printing
Additional Formats (note)
  • Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
  • Also available as an e-book (electronic text and image data) through Early American imprints, first series (Digital Evans).
Call Number
*KD 1784 09-64
OCLC
318370254
Author
Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784.
Title
Ein einfältiges Reim-Gedichte : welches Christoph Saur gemacht hat auf seinen Namen und Geburts-Tag, als er sechzig Jahr alt war den 26sten September, 1781 : Mel. Meine Sorgen Angst und Plagen.
Imprint
[Germantown, Pa.? : Leibert and Billmeyer?, 1784?]
Indexed In:
ESTC W18578
Sabin 77196
Evans 17367
Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 344
Bötte & Tannhof. German printing, 601
Additional Formats
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Also available as an e-book (electronic text and image data) through Early American imprints, first series (Digital Evans).
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Added Author
Leibert, Peter, 1727-1812. Printer
Billmeyer, Michael, 1752-1837. Printer
Research Call Number
*KD 1784 09-64
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