The Grecian daughter, or, an example of a virtuous wife, who fed her father with her own milk : he being condemned to be starved to death by Tyberius Caesar, emperor of Rome, but was afterwards pardoned, and the daughter highly rewarded.
Title:
The Grecian daughter, or, an example of a virtuous wife, who fed her father with her own milk : he being condemned to be starved to death by Tyberius Caesar, emperor of Rome, but was afterwards pardoned, and the daughter highly rewarded.
Author:
Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805.
Physical Description:
1 broadside : illustrations ; 50 x 34 cm
General Note:
Poetry.
Printed in three columns.
At head of title wood-engraving of woman suckling chained man in prison cell, within border of type ornaments.
Printed vertically at left of border of cut: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun.; at right of border: Milk Street--Boston. Price 6 cents.
Boston directories first list Coverly at this address in 1810; he tended to use double address in his later broadsides and died in 1824.
This edition not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
Based on the play by Arthur Murphy.
Language:
English
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Format :
Book