Volume 3 / Part 6 — C. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POETRY OF PHILIP FRENEAU
Reading edition
The following is a list of the individual and collected poetical publications of Freneau. For a more complete view of the poet's literary activities the reader is referred to the painstaking and admirable "Bibliography of the separate and collected works of Philip Freneau," by Mr. Victor Hugo Paltsits (N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903). Opportunity has been taken here to bring the list up to date, to correct a few omissions and errors in Mr. Paltsits' volume, and to locate copies whose existence he overlooked. To avoid confusion the abbreviations used by him have been retained, viz: AAS = American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.; BA = Boston Athenæum, Boston, Mass.; BM = British Museum, London, England; BPL = Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass.; BU = Brown University Library, Providence, R. I.; C = Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.; GSMT = General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, N. Y. City; HC = Harvard University Library, Cambridge, Mass.; HSP = Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; LCP = Library Company of Philadelphia, Pa.; MHS = Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass.; NA = New York Public Library, Astor Foundation, N. Y. City; NJSL = New Jersey State Library, Trenton, N. J.; NkPL = Newark Free Public Library, Newark, N. J.; NL = New York Public Library, Lenox Foundation, N. Y. City; NYHS = New York Historical Society, N. Y. City; NYSL = New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.; PU = Princeton University Library, Princeton, N. J.; SPL = Springfield Public Library, Springfield, Mass.
1772
The | American Village,| a Poem.| To which are added,| Several other original Pieces in Verse.| By Philip Freneau, A. B.| [Quotation of two lines from Horace.]
New York:| Printed by S. Inslee and A. Car, on Moor's Wharf.| M, DCC, LXXII.| 12mo; pp. [1]-27, [1].
See Vol. I, xxii, and Vol. III, Appendix A, supra. Copies: BU, C.
1772
A | Poem, | on the | Rising Glory | of | America;| being an | Exercise | Delivered at the Public Commencement at | Nassau-Hall, September 25, 1771. |[Quotation of six lines from Seneca.]|
Philadelphia:| Printed by Joseph Crukshank, for R. Aitken,| bookseller, opposite the London-coffee-|house, in Front-Street.| M, DCC, LXXII.| 12mo; pp. [3]-27.
See Vol. I, xxi, and 49, supra. Copies: BU, C, HSP, MHS, NYHS, PU.
1775
American Liberty,| a | Poem.| [Quotations one line from Virgil and two lines from Pope].|
New-York:| Printed by J. Anderson, at Beekman-Slip.| MDCCLXXV.| 12mo; pp. 3-12.
See Vol. I, 142, supra. Copies: C, LCP.
1775
General Gage's Soliloquy. New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine, 1775.
No printed copy of this has thus far been discovered. A manuscript copy of unknown origin is in the Du Simitière collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Endorsed upon it are the words "Printed in New York August. 1775. By Gaine." See Vol. I, 152 supra.
1775
A | Voyage | to | Boston. | A | Poem.| [Quotation of five lines from Shakespeare.] By the Author of American Liberty, a Poem: General | Gage's Soliloquy, &c.|
New-York: Printed by John Anderson,| at Beekman's Slip.| 12mo; pp. [III]-IV, [5]-24.
See Vol. I, 158, supra. Copies: C, LCP, NYHS.
1775
A | Voyage | to | Boston. | A | Poem.| [Quotation of five lines from Shakespeare.]| By the Author of American Liberty, a Poem: General | Gage's Soliloquy, &c.|
Philadelphia: | Sold by | William Woodhouse, | in Front street.| M, DCC, LXXV.| 12mo; pp. [III]-iv, [5]-24.
A reprint of the Anderson edition. Copies: AAS, HSP, NYHS, PU.
1775
General Gage's | Confession,| Being the Substance of | His Excellency's last Conference,| With his Ghostly Father, Friar Francis.| [Quotation of one line from Virgil.]| By the Author of the Voyage to Boston. | A Poem, &c.|
Printed in the Year, 1775.| Small 8vo; pp. [3]-8.
The copy in the possession of the Library Company of Philadelphia is at present believed to be unique. Written on the title page by a contemporary hand are the words "By Gaine. Published October 25: 1775."
1778
The | Travels | of the | Imagination;| a true Journey from | New Castle to London.| To which are added,| American Independence,| an | everlasting deliverance | from | British Tyranny: | a Poem.|
Philadelphia: | Printed, by Robert Bell, in Third-Street.| M DCC LXXVIII.| 12mo.
The main work is by James Murray. Freneau's poem, pp. [113]-126 of the volume, has the title page:
American | Independence,| an everlasting | Deliverance | from | British Tyranny.| A Poem.| By Philip F——, Author of the American Village,| Voyage to Boston, &c.| [Quotation of six lines from Shakespeare.]|
Philadelphia: Printed, by Robert Bell, in Third-Street.| M DCC LXXVIII.|
The same sheets were used to form part VI of "Miscellanies | for | Sentimentalists," published the same year by Bell.
See Vol. I, 271, supra. Copy: HSP.
1779
Sir Henry Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees.
The only evidence at present of the separate publication of this piece is the entry in Frank Moore's Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution (N. Y. 1856, p. 259): "We have it in a ballad sheet, dated 1779."
See Vol. II, p. 7, supra.
1781
The British Prison-Ship:|A | Poem,| in four Cantoes.|
Viz. Canto 1. The Capture,
2. The Prison-Ship,
3. The Prison-Ship, continued,
4. The Hospital-Prison-Ship.
To which is added,| A Poem on the Death of Capt. N. Biddle,| who was blown up, in an Engagement with the | Yarmouth, near Barbadoes.| [Quotation of thirteen lines from Milton.]|
Philadelphia:| Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street.| M. DCC. LXXXI.| 12mo; pp. [3]-23.
See Vol. II, p. 18, supra. Copies: BU, LCP, NYHS.
1783
New Year Verses,| Addressed to those Gentlemen who have been | pleased to favour Francis Wrigley, News Car-|rier, with their Custom.| January 1, 1783.| Folio, broadside.
See Vol. II, p. 197, supra. Copy: C.
1783
New Year's Verses, addressed to The Customers of the Pennsylvania Evening Post, by the Printer's Lad who carries it. January 4, 1783.
This is known only through the version in the 1786 edition of Freneau's poems, pp. 383-385. It was undoubtedly first issued as a broadside.
1783
New Year's | Verses | Addressed to the Customers of | The Freeman's Journal,| By the Lad who carries it.| January 8th, 1783.| Folio, broadside.
See Vol. II, p. 198, supra. Copy: C.
1784
New-Year | Verses, | For those who Carry the | Pennsylvania Gazette | to the | Customers.| January 1, 1784.| Small folio, broadside.
Reprinted in the 1786 edition, pp. 387-388; in the 1795 edition, p. 265; and in the 1809 edition, Vol. II, pp. 161-162. In the two latter versions, with the title changed to "A News-man's Address," the original first line:
"How things are chang'd since last New Year"
was altered to read:
"What tempests gloomed the by-past year—"
See Vol. II, p. 238, supra. Copy: HSP.
1784
New Year's Verses, Addressed To the Customers of the Freeman's Journal, by the Lad who carries it. January 7, 1784.
The original broadside has not been found. The only version at present known is in the 1786 edition, pp. 389-390. See Vol. II, p. 240, supra.
1785
New Year's Verses, addressed to the Customers of the Freeman's Journal, by the Lad who Carries it. January 1, 1785.
The first trace of this is to be found in the 1786 edition, pp. 391-393. It was doubtless first issued as a broadside. See Vol. II, p. 284, supra.
1786
New Year's Verses, for 1786. [Written for the Carriers of the Columbian Herald.]
The first trace to be found of this is in the 1788 edition, pp. 142-144. This is signed "Charleston (S. C.) Jan. 1786." It doubtless appeared as a broadside. See Vol. II, p. 301, supra.
1786
The | Poems | of | Philip Freneau.| Written chiefly during the late War.|
Philadelphia:| Printed by Francis Bailey, at | Yorick's Head, in Market street. | M DCC LXXXVI.|
Small 8vo; pp. [v]-vii, [1]-407.
This is the first collected edition of Freneau's poems. See Vol. I, p. xxxix-xli, supra. Copies: BM, BPL, BU, C, HSP, LCP, MHS, NA, NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU.
1787
A | Journey | from | Philadelphia | to | New-York, | by Way of Burlington and South-Amboy.| By | Robert Slender, Stocking Weaver.| Extracted from the Author's Journals.| [Quotation of two lines from Horace.]
Philadelphia; Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in | Market-street.| M DCC LXXXVII.| 12mo; pp. vi, [7]-28.
See Vol. II, p. 388, supra. Copies: BU, C, NYHS, PU.
1788
New Year's Verses for 1788. [Supposed to be written by the Printer's lad, who supplies the customers with his weekly paper.]
The first trace of this is in the 1788 edition, pp. 393-395. It was doubtless first issued as a broadside for some newspaper. See Vol. II, p. 383, supra.
1788
The | Miscellaneous | Works | of | Mr. Philip Freneau | containing his | Essays,| and | additional Poems.|
Philadelphia:| Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's | Head, in Market Street.| M DCC LXXXVIII.| Small 12mo; pp. xii [1]-429.
The second collected edition of Freneau's poems. It contained no poems that had been published in the first collection. See Vol. I, p. xliii, supra. Copies: BM, BPL, BU, C, HSP, LCP, MHS, NA, NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU.
1794
The | Village Merchant: | A | Poem. To which is added the | Country Printer. | [Four lines from section five of The Village Merchant.]|
Philadelphia: | Printed by Hoff and Derrick,| M, DCC, XCIV.| Small 8vo; pp. [3]-16.
See Vol. II, p. 14, supra. Copies: BU, HSP.
1795
Poems | Written between the Years 1768 & 1794,| by | Philip Freneau,| of | New Jersey: | A New Edition, Revised and Corrected by the | Author; Including a considerable number of | Pieces never before published.| [Pyramid of fifteen stars, followed by two lines of Latin from Page 435.]|
Monmouth | [N. J.] | Printed | At the Press of the Author, at Mount-Pleasant, near | Middletown-Point; M, DCC, XCV: and, of |—American Independence—| XIX.| 8vo; pp. xv, [1]-455, [1].
The third collected edition of Freneau. See Vol. I, pp. lxvi-lxviii, supra. Copies: AAS, BA, BM, BPL, BU, C, HC, HSP, LCP, MHS, NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU, SPL, GSMT, NkPL.
1797
Means | for the | Preservation | of | Public Liberty. | An | Oration | delivered in the New Dutch Church, | on the | Fourth of July, 1797.| Being the twenty-first | Anniversary of our Independence.| By G. J. Warner.| [Ten lines from Freneau's poem To a Republican with Mr. Paine's Rights of Man.]|
New York: | Printed at the Argus Office,| for | Thomas Greenleaf and Naphtali Judah.| 1797.| 8vo; pp. [7]-22.
On pp. 20-21 Ode | (Composed for the Occasion, by P. Freneau.) The Musick performed | by the Uranian Musical Society.| See Vol. III, p. 152, supra. Copy: NL.
1797
Megara and Altavola. To a female satirist (an English actress) on receiving from her no. 1 of a very satirical and biting attack.
Six copies only were printed, of which none is at present known to exist. See the 1809 edition, Vol. II, p. 30; and Vol. III, p. 146, supra.
1798
New Year's Verses.
Issued as a broadside for the Time Piece and dated "January 1, 1798." The only copy that is known at present is bound with the file Time Piece in the library of the New York Historical Society. See Vol. III, p. 194, supra.
1809
Poems | written and published during the | American Revolutionary War,| and now | republished from the original Manuscripts;| interspersed | with Translations from the Ancients,| and other Pieces not heretofore in | Print.| By Philip Freneau.| [Four lines of poetry.]| The Third Edition, in two Volumes.| Vol. I. [II.]|
Philadelphia: From the Press of Lydia R. Bailey, No. 10.| North-Alley.| 1809.| 2 vols.; 12mo; Vol. I, pp. 280, iv; Vol. II, pp. 302, XII.
This is generally known as the fourth collected edition. See Vol. I, p. lxxxiv-lxxxvi, supra. Copies: BM, BPL, BU, C, HSP, LCP, NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU, NJSL.
1809
A Laughable Poem;| or | Robert Slender's | Journey | from | Philadelphia to New York, | by | Way of Burlington and South Amboy.| By Philip Freneau, |Author of Poems written during the American Revo-|lutionary War, and lately published in this City | by Lydia R. Bailey, in two Volumes, Duodecimo.| Persons of the Poem.| [Nine lines for nine characters.]|
Philadelphia: | Printed for Thomas Neversink.| December 20, 1809.| 12mo; pp. [3]-24.
A reprint with few variations of the 1787 edition. See Vol. II, p. 338, supra. Copies: BU, HSP, LCP.
1815
A | Collection of | Poems,| on | American Affairs, and a variety of other Subjects,| chiefly moral and political;| written between the Year 1797 and the pre-|sent Time.| By Philip Freneau,| Author of Poems written during the Revolutionary | War, Miscellanies, &c. &c.| In two Volumes.| [Four lines from Freneau's poem On the British Commercial Depredations.]| Vol. I. [II.]|
New York: Published by David Longworth,| At the Dramatic Repository,| Shakespeare-Gallery.| 1815.| 2 vols.; small 12mo; Vol. I, pp. viii, [13]-188; Vol. II, pp. 176.
See Vol. I, pp. xc-xci, supra. Copies: BA, BM, BPL, BU, C, LCP, NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU, GSMT, NkPL.
1861
Poems on various Subjects, | but chiefly illustrative of the | Events and Actors in the American | War of Independence.| By Philip Freneau. | Reprinted from the rare edition printed at | Philadelphia in 1786.| With a Preface.
London:| John Russell Smith,| Soho Square.| 1861.|
Small 8vo; pp. xxii, [1]-362. Printed at the Chiswick Press.
Copies: BPL, BU, C, HSP, NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU, NkPL.
1865
Poems | relating to the | American Revolution | By Philip Freneau.| With an introductory memoir and notes.| By | Evert A. Duyckinck.|
New York:| W. J. Widdleton, Publisher.| M.DCCC. LXV. 12mo; pp. xxxviii, [1]-288. por. and facsim.
Copies: AAS, BM, BPL, C, HSP, LCP, NA, NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU, SPL, NkPL. One hundred copies also on large paper, royal 8vo.
1891
Poems | relating to the | American Revolution | by | Philip Freneau | With an introductory memoir and notes | By | Evert A. Duyckinck | New York | Thomas Y. Crowell Co. | 46 East Fourteenth Street. | 12mo. pp. xxxviii, 288.
This is a reissue of the 1865 edition printed with red line borders for Crowell's "Red Line Series of the Poets." Cover title misprinted "Frenau's Poems," Also issued without red line border.
1902
The | Poems of Philip Freneau | Poet of the American Revolution | Edited for | the Princeton Historical Association | By | Fred Lewis Pattee | Princeton N.J. | the University Library | 1902 |.
8º; 3 vols. pp. CXII, 294; X, 407; XIV, 430 (Vol. II, 1903, Vol. III, 1907).
1906
The American Village | A Poem by | Philip Freneau | Reprinted in facsimile from the original| edition published at New York | in 1772, with an introduction | by | Harry Lyman Roopman | and | Bibliographical Data | by | Victor Hugo Paltsits | [Device] | Providence, Rhode Island | 1906. Square 8vo. pp. XXI, [1]-69.
Edition of 100 copies. The third publication of the Club for Colonial Reprints, of Providence, R. I. See Vol. III, Appendix A, supra.