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Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text Another poem, textually similar to Saw ye my hero George, has title: Lady Washington's search Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3334 Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 236 Relief cut portrait of Washington at left of title; text in two columns; printed area measures 24.3 x 17.6 cm Saw ye my hero George, first lines: Saw you my hero--saw you my hero, saw you my hero George? The rosary, attributed to William Pearce in Philbrick, Thomas L. "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258; first line: Though oft we meet severe distress Various imprint dates and places of publication supplied. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. III, no. 50, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924 Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 1354 Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 761 Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series |
