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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 t.i.tle 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 Lx.x.xVI.|
Small 8vo; pp. [v]-vii, [1]-407.
This is the first collected edition of Freneau's poems. See Vol. I, p. x.x.xix-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 Lx.x.xVII.| 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 Lx.x.xVIII.| 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.
