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- Description
- 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.; 57 x 46 cm.
- Uniform Title
- American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 14175.
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- Genre/Form
- Note
- On the evils of intemperance and those who traffic in intoxicating liquors. The American Antiquarian Society copy is mutilated, lacking most of title. The extract is from a proposed amendment to a Massachusetts law passed Apr. 19, 1838, "An act to regulate the sale of spiritous liquors." Cf. Massachusetts House of Representatives doc. no. 37, March 6, 1839.
- Relief prints are identical with those on a typographically similar temperance broadside, Simeon L. Crockett's The true cause of crime. Dying words of a criminal ... March 15, 1836, Cassady & March, printers, Boston.
- Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 55.3 x 41.5 cm.
- Followed by "The danger of evil company: By Hannah More," a poem in thirty-seven stanzas; "Practitioners at the bar;" and "Total abstinence pledge."
- Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic text and image data.
- Title
Wha[...]. Extract from [...] legislature, March, 1839. [electronic resource] : "Section 4. All common dram-shops are hereby declared to be public nuisances ..."
- Imprint
[Boston : Printed by Cassady & March?, 1839]
- Series
American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 14175.
- Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 14175).
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- Place of Publication
United States Massachusetts Boston.
- Added Author
More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Danger of evil company.
Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.