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Rights
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Public Domain; this copy held by Matt Marshall, with whose courtesy we are using it.
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Date
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Edition published 1825; Prudence Crandall signature 1826 (she was a student at New England Yearly Meeting Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island, at that time)
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Description
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Prudence Crandall's personal copy of William Cowper's The Task, signed on the overleaf prior to the title pages.
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Format
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Book with signature
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Language
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English
Latin
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Publisher
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This page: The Task by Cowper. London: Published by John Sharpe, 1825 – engraving in middle – R. Westll, R.A.Adel Chas Rolls sc. “Kate is craz’d”
Followng page has complete reference: The Task by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. – fit surculus arbor. Anon. London: Printed or John Sharpe, Duke Street, Piccadilly; by C. and C. Whittingham, Chiswick, M DCCC XXV
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Contributor
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This book was later owned by Emily Post (!)
Poetry
