ALONZO & MELISSA, ILLUSTRATING THE CHANGES OF FORTUNE, AND TRIUMPH OF VIRTUE. STEREOTYPE EDITION. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, JAN. 2, 1844
1844 · [Enfield, Mass?
by [Allen, Alonzo Giles]
[Enfield, Mass?: Printed by John Howe?, 1844. 4.75" x 6.25". [8] pp, folded sheet. Poem, caption title [as issued] within ornamental border, untrimmed. Minor wear, Near Fine.
The story of the love between Alonzo, "a generous young man", and Melissa. "Near New-London city there dwelt in great fame,/ A farmer's fair daughter, Melissa by name!" AAS ascribes this piece to the Enfield Press of John Howe. Philip Gura, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts: John Howe of Greenwich and Enfield, ca. 1803-45,' in Proceedings of the American (truncated)
The story of the love between Alonzo, "a generous young man", and Melissa. "Near New-London city there dwelt in great fame,/ A farmer's fair daughter, Melissa by name!" AAS ascribes this piece to the Enfield Press of John Howe. Philip Gura, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts: John Howe of Greenwich and Enfield, ca. 1803-45,' in Proceedings of the American (truncated)