A Prospective view of death [microform] : being, a solemn warning to inconsiderate youth, occasioned by the trial and condemnation of Levi Ames, aged twenty-two years, who was convicted of burglary, and received sentence of death, Sept. 10, 1773. Who is soon finally to leave the world, and launch into an awful eternity. : To which is added, his trial and life. ...

Published:: Boston : Printed and sold by E. Russell, next the cornfield, Union-Street, near the market, [1773]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 43 x 36 cm

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Text of poem in three columns, narrative of Ames' trial and life in two columns below poem; Relief cuts of a coffin (Reilly 1207) and a skull (not in Reilly) flanking title; printed area measures 41.6 x 33.5 cm.
Verse in eighteen numbered stanzas; first line: Attend, ye people here conven'd.
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Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42485).

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Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B3622
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800 42485

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