Eine Trauergeschichte, Oder eine neues Lied über eine grausame Mordthat

[Pennsylvania]: Unknown publisher, ca1830. As issued.. Good; overall toning; old folds with occasional minor separations; small gouge along lower typographical border.. Large folio broadside meas. appx. 46 x 29 cm. Printed on milled paper; no watermark. 42 verses printed in four columns within a typographical border. First line: Nun höret alle sammt ihr Christen ....

A German poem, apparently written in Pennsylvania in the late 18th century (according to Edwin Wolf, around 1795) describing the murder of a poor girl by the rich boy who earlier proposed marriage; it represents a moral, or cautionary, tale. According to OCLC the dimensions of this printing indicate it to be an unknown and unlocated edition since the size is substantially larger than that of the copy of record. Absent from Yoder.