Proposals for printing by subscription, The history of the publick life and distinguished actions of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Brazen, commander of an American squadron in the last age. Together with his slighter adventures and more entertaining anecdotes. In three volumes in quarto. Adorn'd throughout with cuts. Being the judicious abridgement of the unwearied author's own most elaborate and costly performance, in thirty-one volumes in folio. By Thomas Thumb, Esq; surveyor of the customs, and clerk of the check. [Three lines in Latin] [microform].
- Author
- Waterhouse, Samuel, 1729-approximately 1803
- Published
- [Boston?] : [publisher not identified], M,DCC,LX. [1760]
- Physical Description
- 18 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (8vo)
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- Proposals for printing by subscription, The history of the publick life ... of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Brazen
- Note
- "Subscriptions for this work will be taken in, and receipts for advance-money given, by Daniel Type and David Letterson, printers, at the Lamb and Dove, opposite to the Cameleon in Freeman's Lane. And by Henry Page and Oliver Index, booksellers, at the Heart and Crown, in Charter-Street."--p. [19].
A satire in the form of a prospectus on Governor Thomas Pownall. Attributed to Samuel Waterhouse by Evans and in the Dictionary of national biography article on Pownall.
Place of publication suggested by Evans.
ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Other Forms
- Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.
- Reproduction Note
- Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 8763).
- Reviewed/Cited In
- Evans, C. American bibliography, 8763
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