{"id":7488,"date":"2015-04-15T11:40:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2015-04-15T11:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:40:36","slug":"new-eresource-early-american-imprints-series-i-and-series-ii-supplements-from-the-american-antiquarian-society-1652-1819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/new-eresource-early-american-imprints-series-i-and-series-ii-supplements-from-the-american-antiquarian-society-1652-1819\/","title":{"rendered":"New Eresource: Early American Imprints, Series I and Series II: Supplements From the American Antiquarian Society 1652-1819."},"content":{"rendered":"

The initial release of a major new enrichment to the Evans<\/em> and Shaw-Shoemaker<\/em> collections has just <\/a>occurred. Rare items from the American Antiquarian Society, available for the first time in Readex digital editions of Early American Imprints<\/em>, are highlighted below.
<\/p>\n

The Gosport Tragedy<\/strong> (1776)<\/p>\n


\nFrom Early American Imprints, Supplements from the American Antiquarian Society.
<\/p>\n

The Gosport Tragedy<\/em>, or The Perjured Ship Carpenter<\/em>, is a murder ballad set to the tune of Peggy’s Gone Over Sea<\/em>. The folk song tells of a young woman lured by her lover into the forest where she is killed and buried in a shallow grave. In this version of the story the woman, Molly, is murdered by a ship\u2019s carpenter, William, who had promised to marry her after she became pregnant. When William returns to sea, he is haunted by Molly\u2019s ghost and confesses to the murder before going mad.<\/p>\n

The life of a virgin, sweet William, I prize,
\nFor marriage brings sorrow and troubles likewise;
\nI am loath to venture, and therefore forbear,
\nFor I will not wed with a ship-carpenter,
\nFor in the time of war to the sea you must go,
\nAnd leave wife and children in sorrow and woe.
\nThe seas they are perilous, therefore forbear,
\nFor I will not wed with a ship-carpenter.
\nBut yet all in vain she his suit did deny,
\nThough he still did press her maker her comply,
\nAt length with his cunning he did her betray,
\nAnd to lewd desire he led her away.<\/p>\n

In other versions the woman is named Polly and the song is titled Pretty Polly<\/em>. Some have suggested the ballad is the musical basis for Ballad of Hollis Brown<\/em> by Bob Dylan who, in his early career, played the song under the title Pretty Polly<\/em>. Woody Guthrie also used the tune for Pastures of Plenty<\/em>.
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\nThe Solar System Displayed<\/strong> (1789)
\nBy Bartholomew Burges
\nFrom Early American Imprints, Supplements from the American Antiquarian Society

\nBartholomew Burges dedicated this intricate and surprisingly accurate map of the known solar system to the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the State of Massachusetts and to the Philosophical Society of Pennsylvania. Although this map was created 48 years prior to the discovery of Neptune and only eight years after the official discovery of Uranus, labeled here after its discoverer William Herschel, it includes Saturn\u2019s rings and five of its moons as well as four of Jupiter\u2019s moons. Even more amazing is the accuracy of the table showing the various planets\u2019 distances from the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The initial release of a major new enrichment to the Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker collections has just occurred. Rare items from the American Antiquarian Society, available for the first time in Readex digital editions of Early American Imprints, are highlighted below. The Gosport Tragedy (1776) From Early American Imprints, Supplements from the American Antiquarian Society. The … New Eresource: Early American Imprints, Series I and Series II: Supplements From the American Antiquarian Society 1652-1819.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,6,14],"tags":[40,64,68,98,116,126],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-eresources","category-featured-resources","category-new-resources","tag-american-antiquarian-society","tag-early-american-newspapers","tag-eresources","tag-library","tag-new","tag-readex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}