"Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley..." in Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette Vol. XX No. 956

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An issue of the Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette published Thursday, July 28, 1791. The newspaper is a single folded page. On the back page, at top center, is a call for subscriptions that begins [Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley. Two Which will be Added (Never Before Published) Works, Consisting of Poems, on Various Subjects and Letters to Eminent Persons in Great Britain and America]. The planned "work will make about 300 pages" and be sold for six shillings apiece, with publication to begin once there are 500 copies subscribed for. Newspaper has been repeatedly folded in half horizontally. There are small creases, tears, and losses, including from insect activity, along the edges. Paper is slightly yellowed with foxing scattered throughout.

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