Daily meditations: or, Quotidian preparations for, and considerations of death and eternity. Begun July 19. 1666 [microform] / By Philip Pain; who lately suffering shipwrack, was drowned. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts].

Author:: Pain, Philip, -1668?
Published:: Cambridge [Mass.] : Printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1668.
Physical Description:: 4 unnumbered pages, 16 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; (8vo)
Additional Creators:: J. T.

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Death—Meditations
Death—Poetry

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Poems - 1668

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"A postscript to the reader."--p. [17-18], in verse; signed: J.T.
"This work is the earliest known specimen of original American verse printed in the English colonies."--Wegelin.
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Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 128).

Reviewed/Cited In:

Evans, C. American bibliography, 128
Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 299
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) P190

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