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Very rare pornographic imprint, 1p. sm. 8vo., [n.p., n.d., Enfield, Mass. Solomon Howe, ca. 1830s.]. Poem consists of six 8-line stanzas, in small part: "One evening as I walk'd alone / I hear'd a fair maid make her moan /And thus did she begin her tone / 'I can no longer lay alone:' / I wonder what the cause can be / The young men do not fancy me? / I have a thing that belongs to me, / Would please a young man handsomely / I he be a miller that is kind / All in my mill I'll let him grind / And if his stones are even hung, / His mill forever shall go strong: / I'll open wide the postern gate, / And patiently for toll will wait; / And let him come by night or day / I'll have all things out of his way..." Fine. Printer Solomon Howe was the son of Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe (1750-1835), and printed with his brother John (1783-1845) in Greenwich and Enfield, Mass., and published some broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830's. Not in American Imprints; not in "Publications of the Howes of Enfield and Greenwich" in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 60, no. 2 (1950); OCLC locates copies at the Library Co., Brown, Mass. Historical, UNC-Chapel Hill, Michigan, AAS, and Miami University in Ohio.

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